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Hackers Use Single-Letter Go Module Typosquat to Deploy DNS-Based Backdoor

📅 20 May 2026 at 12:30 UTC📰 Cyber Security NewsView original source ↗
Hackers Use Single-Letter Go Module Typosquat to Deploy DNS-Based Backdoor

A seemingly innocent typo in a Go module name has been quietly serving a live backdoor for nearly three years. Security researchers uncovered a malicious package called github.com/shopsprint/decimal that impersonates the popular github.com/shopspring/decimal library, differing by just a single letter in its name. The package went live in 2017 but was weaponized in August 2023, when attackers slipped in […] The post Hackers Use Single-Letter Go Module Typosquat to Deploy DNS-Based Backdoor appeared first on Cyber Security News.

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