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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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