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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@Ills3C2 days ago

15 intel reports

A fake-download campaign uses trojanized Inno Setup installers to deliver various monetization payloads, including proxyware and distributed-computing agents, to compromised Windows devices.

KGB RAT is a Windows-based Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) tool providing Remote Access Trojan capabilities, including credential theft, HVNC, ransomware, and cryptocurrency wallet swapping.

Midnight Blizzard-linked actor GTG-20006 utilized AI-assisted code generation to modify PowerShell stagers and Go backdoors targeting government and defense organizations via device-code phishing.

LausivLoader utilizes a multi-stage infection chain involving JavaScript, PowerShell, and .NET, leveraging environment variable inheritance for inter-process data handoff and steganography to deliver final payloads.

Threat actors are abusing FTP banners as Dead Drop Resolvers (DDRs) to deliver novel RATs, E4del and PINHOLE, using legitimate services like Pinterest and SurveyMonkey for configuration retrieval.

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