Getting a taste of your own medicine: Threat actor MUT-1244 targets offensive actors, leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials | Datadog Security Labs

Threat actor MUT-1244 targets offensive security actors, including pentesters and researchers, using phishing campaigns and trojanized GitHub repositories to deliver a second-stage payload. The payload exfiltrates sensitive data such as SSH keys, AWS credentials, and environment variables. Over 390,000 WordPress credentials were harvested after compromising threat actors who used a trojanized credential checker tool named 'yawpp'. The actor leverages multiple initial access methods, including malicious npm packages and phishing emails, to distribute the same backdoor.

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