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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@Ills3C18 hours ago

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GitLab has released urgent patches for a critical CVSS 10.0 integer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-97229) in its CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that allows for remote code execution.

Ransomware actors Spikey Scorpius and Tarnished Scorpius are exploiting an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect (CVE-2026-0257) to gain initial access, bypass MFA, and pivot to virtualization infrastructure.

China-nexus actors UAT-11587 and UNC6384 are targeting government, diplomatic, and policy organizations across Asia and Europe using the novel Rust-based Antino backdoor and PlugX RAT via complex multi-stage infection chains.

The threat actor Storm-2755, also known as Payroll Pirates, uses adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing and residential proxies to compromise Microsoft 365 accounts for targeted financial data collection.

The Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware group is exploiting a critical Palo Alto Networks authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-0257) to gain initial access and deploy ransomware via credential-driven lateral movement.

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