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RedC2 4.0 AI-Assisted Backdoor Hidden in npm Packages

RedC2 4.0 AI-Assisted Backdoor Hidden in npm Packages

ATLAS OWASP HIGH Significant risk · Prioritise patching ▲ 7.2 The Hacker News

Fourteen trojanized npm packages posing as calendar and streak utilities have been discovered delivering RedShell, the Linux beacon component of RedC2 4.0 — a commercially sold, AI-assisted command-and-control framework. The packages are functional by design, lowering suspicion while silently launching a detached backdoor process on import with no install hook required. RedC2 4.0 supports credential theft, in-memory execution, tunneling, and multi-beacon operations, making successful deployment a significant post-exploitation risk for any Linux environment that consumes affected packages.

Check Point 2026 AI Security Report: LLMs Now Run Live Attacks

Check Point 2026 AI Security Report: LLMs Now Run Live Attacks

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL Active exploitation · Immediate action required ▲ 9.2 Check Point Research

Check Point Research's 2026 AI Security Report documents a fundamental shift in the threat landscape: AI has moved from a development accelerator to an active operator within live intrusions, with nation-state and criminal actors alike deploying LLMs to conduct hands-on attack operations. The report highlights the maturation of AI-enabled criminal tooling markets, the rise of indirect prompt injection as an operationally relevant attack vector, and persistent enterprise data leakage through unsanctioned AI application use. Agentic architectures are being specifically exploited through planted configuration files that persist malicious instructions across sessions, representing a durable and largely invisible bypass technique.

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