{"id":220768,"date":"2025-08-23T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/apt36-hackers-abuse-linux-desktop-files-to-install-malware-in-new-attacks"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:18:05","slug":"apt36-hackers-abuse-linux-desktop-files-to-install-malware-in-new-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/apt36-hackers-abuse-linux-desktop-files-to-install-malware-in-new-attacks","title":{"rendered":"APT36 hackers abuse Linux.desktop files to install malware in new attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/apt36-hackers-abuse-linux-desktop-files-to-install-malware-in-new-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux.desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistani APT36 cyberspies are using Linux.desktop files to load malware in new attacks against government and defense entities in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}