Wired publishes the CAIRN/CLOSEDQUORUM findings
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Wired reported the details of CAIRN and CLOSEDQUORUM, with the story circulating via Techmeme and social reposts.
“The core idea is that AI integration has these vestiges, like fingerprints, that are left behind”
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 7 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Unite.AI, 1d ago · also Cisco Talos Blog, Wired
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first by BleepingComputer, 1d ago · also The Register
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first by Mastodon, 1d ago · also Wired
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first by iTnews, 1d ago
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first by Cyber Security News, 1d ago
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first by Help Net Security, 1d ago
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Cisco Talos is proud to introduce CAIRN, a new metadata-first research toolkit designed to scale the hunting and classification of AI-integrated malware without defenders needing to download binaries: https:// blog.talosintelligence.com/int roducing-cairn-frontier-tracking-for-ai-integrated-malware
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Cisco Talos spotted Windows malware, CLOSEDQUORUM, taking orders from an LLM hive mind without human input. It polls DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, and Gemini to decide next steps. Researchers flagged it via CAIRN, a new open-source system cataloging AI fingerprints in code.
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New product announcement. Cisco: Introducing CAIRN: Frontier tracking for AI-integrated malware https:// blog.talosintelligence.com/int roducing-cairn-frontier-tracking-for-ai-integrated-malware/ @ TalosSecurity # Cisco # infosec # malware @ ifin
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NEW: Cisco Talos researchers built a tool to ID malware that integrates AI tools. It quickly found a command-and-control server for malware that is entirely directly by AI to plan its attack methods. @lhn.bsky.social has the scoop:
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