> Bitter Hackers Deploy New PapRAT Backdoor in Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting South Asia
[DATE: 09/11/2026 14:31]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
The South Asian cyber espionage group known as Bitter (aka APT-C-08, APT-Q-37, Hazy Tiger, Orange Yali, T-APT-17, and TA397) has been observed targeting South Asian organizations with a previously unreported remote access trojan called PapRAT.
"PapRAT has both C++ and Rust implementations," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said. "Its capabilities include command execution, file