Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE to Compromise 13 Organizations Across Six Countries

Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE to Compromise 13 Organizations Across Six Countries

The Hacker News · Sep 14, 2026

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Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE to Compromise 13 Organizations Across Six Countries
Security September 14, 2026

A Chinese threat actor tracked as Red Heron has been attributed to the rapid exploitation of a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Gitea to compromise internet-facing instances as part of a multi-national campaign. "Red Heron scanned 1,386 Gitea instances across seven countries and maintained a separate dataset of 477 Taiwan-based systems," Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) said in an

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