Real Estate Cyber Heist: When AI and Steganography Crash the Housing Market Party
The Tuoni C2 attack demonstrates how attackers are leveraging AI and advanced techniques like steganography and in-memory execution to evade traditional defenses. With AI-assisted delivery methods, they’re essentially playing hide-and-seek with your security systems, and spoiler alert: they’re really good at hiding.
Hot Take:
Looks like the future of cybercrime is here, and it’s brought a whole toolkit of sneaky new tricks. The Tuoni C2 framework attack is like the Ocean’s Eleven of cyber heists, complete with social engineering, AI, and a sprinkle of steganography for good measure. It’s a digital Houdini act that evades traditional defenses, leaving security teams scratching their heads and wondering if they should start hiring magicians instead of analysts.
Key Points:
- Cybercriminals used Tuoni C2, a modular framework, to target a US real estate company.
- The attack involved social engineering, steganography, and in-memory execution.
- AI-assisted methods made the malicious code harder to detect.
- The attack reflects a growing trend of using AI and modular C2 tools in cybercrime.
- Morphisec’s Automated Moving Target Defense stopped the attack pre-execution.