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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

7 intel reports

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.

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.

A customized variant of DcRAT named BeepRAT is being distributed via a Chinese phone number management utility, targeting telecommunications providers with an extensive C2 command framework.

MariaDB 11.4 and 11.8 series are vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow in the JSON_SCHEMA_VALID function, allowing authenticated users to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary OS commands.