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VAPOR PANDA AI-Driven ARTEX Global Espionage Campaign

VAPOR PANDA is using the ARTEX agentic AI framework and DeepSeek LLM to conduct simultaneous global espionage against foreign ministries and critical infrastructure sectors.

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ills3c Intel&Coffee@Ills3C8 hours ago

4 intel reports

The threat actor Nightmare Eclipse released the RoguePlanet zero-day exploit (CVE-2026-50656) targeting a race condition in Microsoft Defender to achieve SYSTEM privileges on Windows 10 and 11.

The GreatXML exploit by researcher Nightmare-Eclipse abuses the Windows Recovery Environment and Defender Offline Scan state to bypass BitLocker encryption using a malicious unattend.xml file.

Chaotic Eclipse is leveraging zero-day vulnerabilities YellowKey and MiniPlasma to bypass BitLocker and achieve SYSTEM-level privilege escalation on Windows 11 and Server environments.