First reported openid.net
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First reported · updated · 5 reports talosintelligence.com
The Closed Quorum: Inside the first reported autonomous AI C2 implant
Cisco Talos documented CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows implant it describes as the first publicly reported autonomous AI command-and-control (C2) malware, discovered via its CAIRN project. The binary delegates its next-action decisions to a quorum of up to four commercial LLMs (DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Google Gemini) queried in sequence, executing their chosen actions to harvest credentials and crypto wallets without a human operator or dedicated C2 server; Talos has no confirmation of in-the-wild deployment but linked the developer to carding forum postings.autonomous-agent · ai-c2 · malware · data-exfiltration · tool-abuse
llm · ai-agents · windows
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0.60
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First reported cheq.ai
What Is AI Agent Identity? Verifying the Agents Reaching Your Site
CHEQ's explainer defines AI agent identity as the set of signals (declared, network, provenance, behavioral) used to establish what an automated agent is, who operates it, and whether its presented identity matches the entity behind it. The piece distinguishes identity an organization issues to its own agents from identity it must verify for external agents arriving with no account or credential, and notes that declared identity is a claim rather than proof and can be omitted, changed, or copied from a trusted agent. Details →How the wire is made
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