PULSE NAME
Vibe Hacking: Two AI-Augmented Campaigns Target Government and Financial Sectors in Latin America
WHITE SHADOW-AETHER-040, SHADOW-AETHER-064 AlienVault 2026-05-12 Modified: 2026-05-12
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IOCs
MEDIUM VOLUME
Two distinct threat campaigns, SHADOW-AETHER-040 and SHADOW-AETHER-064, have been identified targeting government entities and financial organizations across Latin America using agentic artificial intelligence to conduct cyber intrusions. SHADOW-AETHER-040, a Spanish-speaking group, compromised six government entities in Mexico between December 2025 and January 2026, while SHADOW-AETHER-064, operating in Portuguese, targeted Brazilian financial institutions starting in April 2026. Both campaigns established SOCKS5 tunnels via ProxyChains and SSH, enabling AI agents to execute commands directly within victim networks. The AI agents dynamically generated hacking tools and scripts on-demand, reducing detection by signature-based security solutions. Despite tactical similarities including shared toolsets like Chisel, Neo-reGeorg, CrackMapExec, and Impacket, the campaigns appear to be separate entities distinguished primarily by language. These operations represent emerging cases of AI agents executing complete...
MITRE ATT&CK & Malware Families
MALWARE FAMILIES
Neo-reGeorg Chisel implante_http PowerDuke - S0139 SOCKTZ
Indicators of Compromise (3 / 25 total)
All FileHash-SHA256 IPv4 domain
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
IPv4 167.148.195.53 2026-05-12
IPv4 209.99.185.221 2026-05-12
IPv4 209.99.185.223 2026-05-12