First Known LLM-Powered Malware From APT28 Hackers Integrates AI Capabilities into Attack Methodology

The newly revealed LAMEHUG campaign signals a watershed moment for cyber-def: Russian state-aligned APT28 has fused a large language model (LLM) directly into live malware, allowing each infected host to receive tailor-made shell commands on the fly. By invoking the Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct model through Hugging Face’s public API, the attackers sidestep traditional static payload constraints and […]

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