{ "response": [ { "Event": { "uuid": "4993de8b-1eda-598c-b85b-f897f4c292c8", "info": "SecFlow Campaign Uses Commercial AI Agents Against Taiwanese and Indonesian Government Targets", "date": "2026-09-04", "threat_level_id": "1", "analysis": "2", "distribution": "3", "published": false, "Orgc": { "name": "SecurityStudies.info" }, "Tag": [ { "name": "tlp:clear" }, { "name": "securitystudies:status=\"curated\"" }, { "name": "securitystudies:type=\"espionage\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"taiwan\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"indonesia\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"vietnam\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"china\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"thailand\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"afghanistan\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Government\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Education\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Manufacturing\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Healthcare\"" } ], "Attribute": [ { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://securitystudies.info/cyber/incidents/secflow-campaign-uses-commercial-ai-agents-against-taiwanese-and-indonesian-government-targets/", "comment": "SecurityStudies.info entry", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://securityaffairs.com/198417/ai/chinese-hackers-use-ai-agents-in-multi-country-cyber-campaign.html", "comment": "source", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "text", "category": "Other", "value": "Hunt.io researchers documented Chinese-speaking operators running the SecFlow framework across five exposed directories, routing requests to Claude, Qwen and DeepSeek through private proxy servers on the niestools.com domain as interchangeable operational components. Confirmed targets include Kuomintang Party political archives in Taiwan, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, industrial hosts in Vietnam, and government, education and industrial entities in China. The operators deployed the GLUTTON webshell framework and ASPX web shells, used steganographic PNG payload delivery and a fake MySQL deserialization service, and dumped LSASS memory in 37-block segments. Confirmed impact totals 822 compromised office-automation user records and 1.28GB of exfiltrated data including patient health information.", "comment": "summary", "to_ids": false } ] } }, { "Event": { "uuid": "7c4fd82c-a984-5d50-abdc-b98dedbb7e04", "info": "Four nation-state actors deploy shared BlueMoon Chrome and Windows zero-day exploit kit within twelve days", "date": "2026-08-28", "threat_level_id": "1", "analysis": "2", "distribution": "3", "published": false, "Orgc": { "name": "SecurityStudies.info" }, "Tag": [ { "name": "tlp:clear" }, { "name": "securitystudies:status=\"curated\"" }, { "name": "securitystudies:type=\"apt\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:threat-actor=\"APT31\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"united states\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"vietnam\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"indonesia\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"singapore\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Government\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Non-Governmental Organisations\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Financial Services\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Manufacturing\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Mining and Commodities\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Consulting\"" } ], "Attribute": [ { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://securitystudies.info/cyber/incidents/four-nation-state-actors-deploy-shared-bluemoon-chrome-and-windows-zero-day-exploit-kit-within-twelve-days/", "comment": "SecurityStudies.info entry", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://securityaffairs.com/198783/apt/four-nation-state-actors-used-the-same-chrome-zero-day-exploit-kit-within-12-days.html", "comment": "source", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/09/04/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog", "comment": "source", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2026/09/08/cisa-adds-four-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog", "comment": "source", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "text", "category": "Other", "value": "TA412 (APT31) and three suspected China-aligned clusters tracked as UNK_LateNight, UNK_DoubleCheck and UNK_QuietRacket independently deployed the same exploit chain combining Chrome V8 type confusion CVE-2026-85046, an unnamed V8 sandbox escape and Windows kernel privilege escalation CVE-2026-85880. TA412 activity began on 28 August 2026 against US NGOs, mining companies and commodity traders; the other clusters followed from 2 September, hitting Vietnamese manufacturing and then Indonesian and Singaporean government, consulting and financial entities. The Chromium patch had been public since 7 August but Chrome stable only shipped on 3 September, giving the actors a wide exploitation window. The convergence on one kit points to a shared exploit broker or quartermaster.", "comment": "summary", "to_ids": false } ] } }, { "Event": { "uuid": "74657fff-2b96-5e87-8bba-660969e4162e", "info": "China-linked SecFlow campaign uses AI agents against Asian government and industrial targets", "date": "2026-08-20", "threat_level_id": "1", "analysis": "2", "distribution": "3", "published": false, "Orgc": { "name": "SecurityStudies.info" }, "Tag": [ { "name": "tlp:clear" }, { "name": "securitystudies:status=\"curated\"" }, { "name": "securitystudies:type=\"espionage\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"taiwan\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"indonesia\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"china\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"vietnam\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Government\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Education\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Defense\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Industrial\"" } ], "Attribute": [ { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://securitystudies.info/cyber/incidents/china-linked-secflow-campaign-uses-ai-agents-against-asian-government-and-industrial-targets/", "comment": "SecurityStudies.info entry", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://securityaffairs.com/198417/ai/chinese-hackers-use-ai-agents-in-multi-country-cyber-campaign.html", "comment": "source", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "text", "category": "Other", "value": "Hunt.io documented a Chinese-speaking operation tracked as SecFlow, linked to a username 'Nie' recurring across its infrastructure, which routed Claude, Qwen and DeepSeek through private proxies at niestools.com to automate reconnaissance and exploitation. The toolkit included the GLUTTON webshell framework delivering steganographic payloads inside PNG files, a fake MySQL deserialization service, a Java and CAS exploitation workspace, and Shellshock and credential-testing nodes. Confirmed targeting spanned Kuomintang Party archives in Taiwan, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Chinese and Vietnamese government, education and industrial hosts. A confirmed breach of the Fengtai District government office-automation environment yielded 822 OA user records and 1.28GB of data including patient health information.", "comment": "summary", "to_ids": false } ] } }, { "Event": { "uuid": "91156f08-77d1-56e9-a07f-3cdbff47a209", "info": "Salt Typhoon Telecom Espionage Campaign — Ongoing", "date": "2024-09-15", "threat_level_id": "1", "analysis": "2", "distribution": "3", "published": false, "Orgc": { "name": "SecurityStudies.info" }, "Tag": [ { "name": "tlp:clear" }, { "name": "securitystudies:status=\"curated\"" }, { "name": "securitystudies:type=\"espionage\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:threat-actor=\"GhostEmperor\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"united states\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"philippines\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"thailand\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"australia\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"indonesia\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"taiwan\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:country=\"japan\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Telecommunications\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Government\"" }, { "name": "misp-galaxy:sector=\"Defense\"" } ], "Attribute": [ { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": "https://securitystudies.info/cyber/incidents/salt-typhoon-telecom-espionage-campaign-ongoing/", "comment": "SecurityStudies.info entry", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": { "title": "CISA Advisory AA24-340A", "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa24-340a" }, "comment": "source", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "link", "category": "External analysis", "value": { "title": "Microsoft Threat Intelligence", "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/" }, "comment": "source", "to_ids": false }, { "type": "text", "category": "Other", "value": "Chinese state-sponsored group Salt Typhoon (also tracked as GhostEmperor/FamousSparrow) continues to maintain persistent access to major US, Southeast Asian, and Australian telecommunications networks. The campaign, first publicly disclosed in late 2024, has been confirmed to compromise call detail records and lawful intercept systems across at least 9 major carriers. As of May 2026, incident response is ongoing at several ASEAN-region telecoms. CISA has issued updated advisories recommending encrypted communications for government officials.", "comment": "summary", "to_ids": false } ] } } ] }