The China-aligned APT group Webworm has updated its toolset in 2025, shifting focus to European and South African targets. The group deployed two new custom backdoors, EchoCreep and GraphWorm, which abuse Discord and the Microsoft Graph API respectively for command and control. Additionally, Webworm utilizes a complex network of custom proxy tools and compromised infrastructure, including GitHub and Amazon S3, to stage payloads and exfiltrate data.
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Webworm: New burrowing techniques EvilTokens: an AI-augmented Phishing-as-a-Service for automating BEC fraud – Part 2 EvilTokens is an advanced Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform that automates Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks via Microsoft device code phishing. It uniquely integrates AI models to automatically analyze compromised mailboxes, identify financial targets, and generate context-aware BEC lures, significantly reducing the time and skill required for threat actors to monetize compromised accounts.
