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The skills pay the bills. [Research Saturday]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Technology, Daily News, News, Tech News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today we are joined by Marco Giuliani, Vice President & Head of Research at ThreatDown, discussing their work on "GachiLoader adopts AI skill lure." Threat actors are now using fake AI agent “skills” as highly convincing social engineering lures, with a new campaign disguising the GachiLoader malware as a legitimate OpenClaw tool for automated Polymarket betting. Victims are tricked through fake installation guides and polished Electron apps into downloading malware that deploys the Rhadamanthys infostealer using fileless injection and blockchain-based command-and-control infrastructure. Researchers say the campaign marks an evolution in cybercrime, turning AI skill ecosystems into a new phishing-style attack surface. The research and executive brief can be found here: ⁠GachiLoader adopts AI skill lure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.3

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0:48.3

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0:55.2

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1:48.6

I'm Dave Bittner, and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

1:51.4

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

1:57.2

Thanks for joining us.

2:09.6

It's a projan which is dropping additional malware into the system. So it's a kind of, you know, entrance point to the infected system and allows malware

2:16.6

to drop additional malware in this specific case

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