A new report describes how a Chinese cyberespionage outfit is using artificial intelligence (AI) to beef up its malware arsenal. If this is a sign of things to come, clustering threat actor behavior together for attribution purposes is about to get a lot harder. The Bitdefender report, released last week, describes seven remote access tool (RAT) families. Remote access tools allow users to access devices despite not having physical access to the computer or laptop. All seven were created by a single cyberespionage actor Bitdefender called SilkParasite, and five were previously undocumented. The report authors have medium confidence that SilkParasite is, ahem, a “China-nexus actor” targeting governments across Central Asia including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan.

Full report : China’s AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting.