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SEO-poisoned GitHub facade campaign targeting enterprise admin tools

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A high-resilience SEO-poisoning campaign is pushing malicious MSI installers through dual-stage GitHub facades, raising the risk that enterprise admins and security staff will install trojanized administrative tools. The operation repeatedly spoofs utilities such as PsExec, AzCopy, Sysmon, LAPS, and Kusto Explorer to reach high-privilege users. Between early December 2025 and April 1, 2026, it deployed 44 GitHub facades, showing sustained effort and rapid repository rotation. The delivery chain is designed to preserve search visibility while redirecting victims to hidden payload repositories.

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  1. 30.04.2026 14:30 2 articles · 2mo ago

    Atos TRC discloses SEO-poisoned GitHub facade campaign

    Initial Disclosure

    Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) discloses a high-resilience campaign targeting enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers, and security analysts with SEO-poisoned search results, dual-stage GitHub facades, and malicious MSI installers impersonating tools such as PsExec, AzCopy, Sysmon, LAPS, and Kusto Explorer. The analysis ties the delivery chain to hidden payload repositories, rapid repository rotation, and Ethereum-based Blockchain-based Dead Drop Resolving (DDR) that queries a public Ethereum (ETH) RPC endpoint and a hardcoded Smart Contract address to retrieve the live C2 server address. The campaign had already deployed 44 separate GitHub facades between early December 2025 and April 1, 2026, and a preliminary alert from KISA&KrCERT/CC provided earlier visibility into the same activity.

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