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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@Ills3C14 hours ago

10 intel reports

The suspected PRC-nexus actor ARMORY CASTLE exploited a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support appliances to deploy custom SAWFLY webshells and BARECLAW tunnelers for credential theft and lateral movement.

The Cling botnet exploits multiple IoT vulnerabilities to deploy a worm-like malware that repurposes legitimate STUN traffic and infrastructure for command-and-control communications.

Adversaries are deploying modular Linux implants including BPFDoor, Rekoobe, and the new AVERAT RAT against telecom edge appliances, utilizing SMTP-disguised C2 and BPF packet filtering to evade detection.

Gamaredon, a Russian FSB-operated group, uses a multi-stage modular framework (GammaPhish, GammaLoad, GammaWorm, GammaSteel) to maintain persistent access and exfiltrate sensitive documents from Ukrainian government and critical infrastructure.

The Evooo1Bot and GorillaBot threat actors are deploying highly modular Mirai-based malware targeting Linux systems and IoT devices to execute large-scale DDoS attacks and establish persistent proxy relays.

A threat actor compromised a Mastra maintainer account to poison 140+ npm packages with a malicious dependency used for cross-platform backdoors and credential exfiltration.