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

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Cisco Talos reports NIK C2, a Go-based Windows remote access framework observed in the wild that embeds an OpenAI Chat Completions client. Operators can dump credentials, log keystrokes, deploy screen-locking ransomware, and have the implant send prompts to an AI model that analyzes stolen data within the same compromised session.…

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