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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20 intel reports
A state-sponsored threat group and Gunra ransomware actors exploited vulnerabilities in South Korean financial security software like AnySign4PC to deploy SIGNBT and COPPERHEDGE backdoors via watering holes.
Atomic MacOS (AMOS) stealer targets Apple users through malicious websites that trick users into pasting terminal commands which download and execute credential-harvesting scripts.
HOLLOWGRAPH malware utilizes Microsoft Graph API to abuse Microsoft 365 calendars as a command-and-control channel for tasking and exfiltration.
Kimsuky targeted South Korean groupware vendors to compromise downstream customers using new Gomir malware variants and credential harvesting techniques.
Threat actors are increasingly using LLMs to generate bespoke, functional malware and automate complex Active Directory enumeration, data exfiltration, and extortion workflows.
Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Langflow (CVE-2026-33017) to deploy a multi-stage Monero cryptomining toolchain and spread via SSH key reuse.
A campaign involving hijacked npm and Go packages uses malicious VS Code tasks to trigger a multi-stage infection chain involving blockchain dead drops, a socket.io backdoor, and a Python infostealer.
A cryptocurrency-mining campaign exploits CVE-2026-33017, an unauthenticated RCE in Langflow, to deploy a Go-based miner with aggressive defense evasion and lateral movement capabilities.
Dropping Elephant is using a China-themed decoy document to deliver a heavily reworked, in-memory RAT via DLL side-loading and Donut shellcode.
Threat actors compromised the Axios npm package to deliver a multi-platform Remote Access Trojan (RAT) via the malicious dependency 'plain-crypto-js'.