AI malware just removed the human from the attack loop

Attackers using AI have greatly benefited when it comes to speed and scale, and now, says Cisco Talos, the technology has evolved to execute large portions of the attack chain entirely without human involvement. Researchers at the threat intelligence group have identified what they call the first “LLM-as-C2” architecture that can fully automate the command-and-control (C2) chain. Dubbed CLOSEDQUORUM, the malware binary relies on a panel of large language model (LLM) judges to map and execute the