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AUTOMATED AI AGENT USED TO BREAD CYBERSECURITY NONPROFIT DIVD

The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Defense (DIVD) reported that they suffered an AI-driven breach. The organization said that the breach was “loud and very, very messy” with the agent working autonomously and over explaining itself in comments, allowing the DIVD to easily reverse-engineer its attack. The threat actor exploited a vulnerability in a vulnerability in an undisclosed software that the organization stated was not Citrix NetScaler.

ATTACKERS ABUSE CHATGPT CUSTOM GPTS TO DELIVER RAT VIA CLICKFIX

Sponsored Google results led victims to "Plus 5.6," a Custom GPT on chatgpt.com that answered every prompt with a fake outage notice pointing to a Google Sites ClickFix lure, and Huntress tied at least 40 incidents to the campaign. The eight-stage chain sideloaded malicious DLLs through Canon-signed (later Stardock-signed) binaries, hid its loader inside a WAV file and a NuGet package. It then unpacked a full-featured RAT from a custom encrypted file system that located its C2 over DNS-over-HTTPS. The signed hosts change with each wave, so defenders should detect behaviors instead: PowerShell spawning msiexec on GUID-named MSIs in %TEMP%, signed apps running from fake %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs folders, and self-restoring Run key and scheduled task pairs, which require killing the process before removing persistence.

NEEDYMANTIS: UNPACKING A POST-COMPROMISE MALWARE FAMILY USED IN TARGETED OPERATIONS

NeedyMantis is a modular post-compromise malware family deployed since at least October 2025 by China-based actors, including Storm-3069 from the DAEMON Tools supply chain compromise, against telecoms, universities, intergovernmental organizations, and government contractors. It was sideloaded as fake DLLs alongside legitimate software like Poedit, curl, Vim, and TightVNC, then unpacked from custom XOR-encrypted archives through shellcode loaders into a stripped-down PE format, and communicated over WebSockets with RC4-encrypted traffic and loadable modules. Defenders should hunt for spoofed DLLs such as WinSparkle.dll or libcurl.dll in unusual ProgramData paths, the hard-coded "firefox/21.0" user agent, and connections to corp.tripswithengine[.]com.

AI AGENTS ARE PRIVILEGED USERS; WHO IS AUDITING THEIR ACCESS?

Enterprises monitor human logins closely but often grant autonomous AI agents broad production access via long-lived service accounts and API tokens. These agents can initiate, approve, and execute high-value actions end-to-end, collapsing segregation of duties. The piece lays out six controls: isolate agent identities, scope permissions to the minimum needed, assign a business owner, log prompts and tool calls, run periodic access reviews, and build an out-of-band kill switch.

FBI REPORTEDLY DECLARES ‘CYBER SECURITY INCIDENT' AFTER HACKERS STEAL AGENTS' PERSONAL DATA

The FBI told staff that a hack of its FBIJobs.gov portal exposed agents' and applicants' names, addresses, job titles, Social Security numbers, and some medical records, including blood and urine samples and psychiatric reports. ShinyHunters says it exploited an Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability and is not demanding money, but wants the bureau to correct an earlier report about its activities. The portal remains offline, and the bureau has not publicly confirmed whether the breach meets the legal threshold for a “major incident” requiring notification to Congress.

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