AI-Assisted Hackers Compromise Government Linux Servers to Deploy Backdoors and Steal Credentials

Hackers used AI-assisted scripts to compromise government Linux servers, harvest administrator credentials, and establish persistent backdoors during a campaign observed between October 2025 and April 2026. The cluster remains unattributed. Under Unit 42’s attribution framework, “UNK” indicates that researchers have not determined whether the activity is state-sponsored or financially motivated. Its intelligence-gathering behavior does not […]

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