INTEL_REPORT
The Hacker News · published 7/20/2026, 9:07:11 AM · TLP amber
Summary
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Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro" outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google's open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence (AI) and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come from an analysis of 200 Gemini CLI session logs between March 19 and April 21, 2026, which found the threat actor using AI, among other things, to crack passwords, set up a re…
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/russian-speaking-hacker-uses-google.html
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