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Red Heron Hackers Exploit Critical Gitea RCE to Steal Source Code and Deploy Linux Rootkit


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2026-09-15 11:20:44
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A Chinese-speaking threat actor known as Red Heron has exploited a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Gitea to steal private source code, harvest credentials, establish persistent access, and move laterally within victim infrastructures. Researchers from the Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) have linked this operation to a newly documented Linux implant called JITTERLY, […]


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