Edr-Evasion
Inside the AI-Orchestrated EDR Evasion Lab: What Sophos Actually Found, and Why the Bug Wasn't in the Malware
Sophos recovered a fully autonomous malware R&D pipeline — a coordinator agent, four subordinate agents, a self-provisioned lab, and 80 evasion modules built against three EDR vendors. The interesting part isn't that it worked. It's the one thing in the whole pipeline that didn't.
eBPF Cuts Both Ways: The Kernel Rootkit Is Now Standard Issue in 2026's Supply-Chain Malware
In two weeks, IronWorm and the atomic-lockfile AUR compromise both shipped an eBPF kernel rootkit as just another payload module. The observability primitive your stack is built on is now the malware's stealth layer — and most detection assumptions are structurally defeated.
Sophos Finds an AI-Orchestrated Lab That Auto-Builds EDR-Evasion Payloads for an Active Ransomware Crew
Sophos X-Ops recovered a post-exploitation framework where AI agents read public research, mapped it to MITRE ATT&CK, and generated ~80 Rust and Go payloads tested against Sophos, CrowdStrike, and Microsoft EDR.
Lazarus RemotePE: Memory-Only RAT Behind $577M Crypto Theft Surfaces in Fox-IT Disclosure
Fox-IT and The Hacker News detail RemotePE, a fileless C++ RAT used by North Korea's Lazarus Group against fintech and crypto firms via a DPAPI-bound loader chain. Tied to $577M in 2026 crypto theft.
Payouts King Runs Hidden QEMU VMs to Bypass EDR — STAC4713 and CitrixBleed 2 Campaigns
Sophos tracks two Payouts King campaigns running Alpine Linux inside QEMU on Windows hosts to tunnel reverse SSH and evade endpoint security. STAC3725 chains in CitrixBleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) against NetScaler.