Recorded Future's Insikt Group tracks the actor behind the October 2026 AI-assisted intrusions into South Korean financial institutions as TAG-217. The group was testing infrastructure and assembling attack tools as early as August 2026, weeks before the campaign became public. South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) disclosed t…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group (report of October 16) tracks a suspected Chinese-speaking actor, TAG-217, linked to attacks on South Korean financial institutions. The actor used Claude Code, DeepSeek, Grok and Zhipu AI alongside ARTEX, an open-source Chinese-language AI penetration testing framework. Public reporting cited in the investi…
The npm account dirtyblanket published nine typosquatted packages on September 29, 2026 in 33 minutes, eight copying Express and one copying React. On Linux, a preinstall hook fetches node.js through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which pulls the worm linux.sh from Codeberg and runs it with bash. The worm installs CHAOS, an open-so…
Unit 42 reports a campaign, tracked as CL-UNK-1211, that targeted government entities and state-affiliated infrastructure between October 2025 and April 2026. The cluster has not been attributed to a nation-state or to cybercrime. The attackers focused on Linux servers for reconnaissance, persistence and intelligence collection, including…
Kaspersky researchers report that the APT group Mirage Kitten has moved from native C/C++/Go malware to Node.js and JavaScript implants, NodeRabbit and PollCat. Both are cross-platform RATs delivered through spear-phishing by fake recruiters on LinkedIn and other job platforms, using trojanized coding-challenge archives hosted on Amazon S…