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China, Italy and US flags with digital code overlay symbolizing the extradition of Silk Typhoon hacker Xu Zewei

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Team Cymru MCP server feeding threat intelligence into AI agents

Team Cymru Launches MCP Server for AI Threat Intelligence Agents

RAT inside a Windows PC illustrating PureRAT variant

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Windows .LNK Shortcuts Exploited by Nasty New PureRAT Variant

An active campaign is using PureRAT, a remote access trojan, to drop malicious .LNK shortcut files on Windows…

April 21, 2026