An AI agent has run a ransomware intrusion on its own for the first time, from break-in to data destruction. The autonomous attacks TrendAI™ Research predicted are beginning to arrive, and defending against them shifts from blocking known indicators to detecting behavior.
Our research examines the April 22 Checkmarx KICS and April 24 elementary-data incidents as part of a broader TeamPCP supply chain campaign. Across both cases, the actor abused trusted CI/CD and release workflows to steal credentials at scale.
A packaging error in Anthropic’s Claude Code npm release briefly exposed internal source code. This entry examines how threat actors rapidly weaponized the resulting attention, pivoting an existing AI-themed campaign to spread Vidar and GhostSocks.
Threat actors leveraged Anthropic’s Claude Code npm release packaging error to distribute Vidar, GhostSocks, and PureLog Stealer. This blog details immediate steps organizations can take and best practices to prevent further risk.
A supply chain attack hit Axios when attackers used stolen npm credentials to publish malicious versions containing a phantom dependency. This triggered a cross-platform RAT during installation and replaced its files with clean decoys, making detection challenging.
Warlock continues to enhance its attack chain with new tactics to improve persistence, lateral movement, and defense evasion using an expanded toolset: TightVNC Yuze, and a persistent BYOVD technique leveraging the NSec driver.
Job seekers looking out for opportunities might instead find their personal devices compromised, as a PureRAT campaign propagated through email leverages Foxit PDF Reader for concealment and DLL side-loading for initial entry.
Trend™ Research identified a sophisticated Agenda ransomware attack that deployed a Linux variant on Windows systems. This cross-platform execution can make detection challenging for enterprises.
Trend™ Research has identified an active campaign spreading via WhatsApp through a ZIP file attachment. When executed, the malware establishes persistence and hijacks the compromised WhatsApp account to send copies of itself to the victim’s contacts.
Trend™ Research analyzed source binaries from the latest activity from notorious LockBit ransomware with their 5.0 version that exhibits advanced obfuscation, anti-analysis techniques, and seamless cross-platform capabilities for Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems.
An analysis of the Gentlemen ransomware group, which employs advanced, adaptive tactics, techniques, and procedure to target critical industries worldwide.
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