{"id":223348,"date":"2025-10-14T03:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/astaroth-banking-trojan-abuses-github-to-remain-operational-after-takedowns"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:27:10","slug":"astaroth-banking-trojan-abuses-github-to-remain-operational-after-takedowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/astaroth-banking-trojan-abuses-github-to-remain-operational-after-takedowns","title":{"rendered":"Astaroth Banking Trojan Abuses GitHub to Remain Operational After Takedowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astaroth-banking-trojan-abuses-github-to-remain-operational-after-takedowns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that delivers the <strong>Astaroth<\/strong> banking trojan that employs GitHub as a backbone for its operations to stay resilient in the face of infrastructure takedowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of relying solely on traditional command-and-control (C2) servers that can be taken down, these attackers are leveraging GitHub repositories to host malware configurations,\u201d McAfee Labs researchers Harshil Patel and Prabudh Chakravorty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/other-blogs\/mcafee-labs\/astaroth-banking-trojan-abusing-github-for-resilience\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen law enforcement or security researchers shut down their C2 infrastructure, Astaroth simply pulls fresh configurations from GitHub and keeps running.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that delivers the Astaroth banking trojan that employs GitHub as a backbone for its operations to stay resilient in the face of infrastructure takedowns. \u201cInstead of relying solely on traditional command-and-control (C2) servers that can be taken down, these attackers are leveraging GitHub repositories to host [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223348","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=223348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}