Bitter APT Group Utilizes New PapRAT Backdoor in South Asian Cyber Espionage Campaign

The Bitter APT group has deployed a new PapRAT backdoor targeting South Asian organizations, featuring C++ and Rust implementations with command execution and file management capabilities.

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

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