{"id":236944,"date":"2026-05-12T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/jdownloader-site-hacked-to-replace-installers-with-python-rat-malware"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:32:07","slug":"jdownloader-site-hacked-to-replace-installers-with-python-rat-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/jdownloader-site-hacked-to-replace-installers-with-python-rat-malware","title":{"rendered":"JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jdownloader-site-hacked-to-replace-installers-with-python-rat-malware2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers, with the Windows payload found deploying a Python-based remote access trojan.<\/p>\n<p>The supply chain attack affects those who downloaded installers from the official website between May 6 and May 7, 2026 via the Windows \u201cDownload Alternative Installer\u201d links or the Linux shell installer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the developers, the attackers modified the website\u2019s download links to point to malicious third-party payloads rather than legitimate installers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers, with the Windows payload found deploying a Python-based remote access trojan. The supply chain attack affects those who downloaded installers from the official website between May 6 and May 7, 2026 via the Windows \u201cDownload [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236944","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=236944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}