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TroyDen's Lure Factory GitHub Trojanized package campaign

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The TroyDen's Lure Factory campaign is distributing 300+ Trojanized GitHub packages, broadening supply-chain risk for developers, gamers, and the general public. One of the main lures impersonates an OpenClaw Docker deployer, while other packages masquerade as a Telegram phone tracker, Fishing Planet cheat, Roblox scripts, crypto bots, and VPN crackers. The payload is a LuaJIT-based Trojan with credential-theft and data-exfiltration capability, and two lures remained active after GitHub was notified on March 20.

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Timeline

  1. 24.03.2026 16:59 1 articles · 3mo ago

    Netskope notifies GitHub about malicious repositories

    Mitigation Patch Update

    Netskope informed GitHub on March 20, 2026 about malicious GitHub projects and related packages tied to TroyDen's Lure Factory, and two lure repositories still remained active on the platform: Fishing Planet Cheat Menu and phone-number-location-tracking-tool.

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  2. 24.03.2026 16:59 2 articles · 3mo ago

    Netskope identifies TroyDen's Lure Factory and its LuaJIT Trojan

    Technical Analysis Update

    Netskope Threat Labs identified TroyDen's Lure Factory as a widespread GitHub supply-chain campaign using more than 300 Trojanized packages to pose as an OpenClaw Docker deployer and other lures for developers, gamers, and the general public. The malicious repository used a polished README, the real upstream repository, and a github.io page to appear authentic, while the LuaJIT-based payload combined a renamed Lua runtime with an encrypted script, captured screenshots, performed victim geolocation, exfiltrated data to a Frankfurt C2 server, and included credential-theft capabilities.

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