NIK C2: The new AI-enabled command-and-control framework

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1. 29. 10. 2026 19:00 · Cisco Talos US

   A quiet week in infosec <.<

   Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. “The darkest period of my life, so far, arrived the summer I was pregnant with my eldest son. The future was growing in me with all of its terrifying unpredictability, and I found myself anxious, unable to work and woefully at sea.” — Lauren Groff I doubt Lauren had this maniacal infosec news cycle in mind when she wrote about the terrifyingly unpredictable future, but honestly, she’s got our current careers down cold. Let he who…

2. 29. 10. 2026 11:00 · Cisco Talos US nadpis události

   NIK C2: The new AI-enabled command-and-control framework

   Cisco Talos observed a new AI-integrated command-and-control (C2) framework in the wild called “NIK C2.” NIK C2 contains a Windows implant, using which, an actor can dump credentials, stream the victim's keystrokes to collect the targeted victim’s sensitive data, and instruct an integrated AI model to analyze the harvested data, all within the compromised session. In this framework, the actor has abused the OpenAI Chat Completions application programming interface (API), which is a HTTP…