First reported darkreading.com
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First reported · updated · 3 reports talosintelligence.com
The Closed Quorum: Inside the first reported autonomous AI C2 implant
Cisco Talos, through its CAIRN project, discovered CLOSEDQUORUM, described as the first publicly documented Windows implant to delegate tactical command-and-control decisions to a panel of up to four commercial LLMs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Google Gemini) rather than a human operator or attacker-run C2 server. The implant autonomously selects and executes its next action to harvest user credentials and crypto wallets; while not confirmed deployed in the wild, binary artifacts linked the developer to carding-related criminal forum postings dating to 2025.autonomous-ai-malware · ai-integrated-malware · command-and-control · data-exfiltration · llm-abuse
llm · ai-agents · windows · deepseek · qwen · mistral · gemini
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