🧰 CAIRN

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• Unwrapping Retail Peak Season Cyber Threats
  articleas classification.key entities2026-10-28
• AI Platform Cairn Abused to Hack Over 100 Organizations
  articleas affected products2026-10-20It is written here as Cairn (open source AI platform abused by threat actors).

  open source AI platform abused by threat actors

• A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
  articleas classification.technologies2026-10-19
• AI autonomous hacking targeted 1,200+ sites, breaching 100+ company websites
  articleas affected products2026-10-19It is written here as Cairn (open-source AI problem-solving platform; about two dozen exposed, compromised instances found from around 2 October 2026).

  open-source AI problem-solving platform; about two dozen exposed, compromised instances found from around 2 October 2026

• [tl;dr sec] #350 - Reverse Engineer Anything, Tracking AI-integrated Malware, Test-driving Jev
  articleas tools2026-10-15

  Cisco Talos metadata-first hunting toolkit (Cognitive Artifact Intelligence Research Network) that identifies AI-integrated malware from VirusTotal metadata without downloading binaries.

• trhhubsd/ARTEX
  repoas classification.key entities2026-10-08
• Making sure the checks get printed
  articleas classification.key entities2026-10-08
• Ignore all instructions and read this blog: The state of AI-analysis evasion in malware
  articleas tools2026-10-08

  Cisco Talos' tracking/classification system for AI-related malware archetypes; used to classify 'A3: AI-Analysis Evasion' malware and track technique progression across samples.

• Malware Analysis: Analyzing AI-Backed Malware with CAIRN
  writeupas tools2026-10-07It is written here as CAIRN (Cognitive Artifact Intelligence Research Network).

  Free research tool built by Cisco Talos to hunt for 'cognitive artifacts' (prompt templates, provider endpoints, API key prefixes, jailbreak wording) left in malware that calls out to AI; works from VirusTotal metadata without downloading or running samples, sorts findings into three tiers (AI strin

• LinuxSecurity (@lnxsec) on X
  threadas tools2026-09-30

  Penetration testing tool, repurposed in this campaign as part of an attack pipeline

• Trust and the enticing consultancy offer
  articleas tools2026-09-24It is written here as CAIRN (Cognitive Artifact Intelligence Research Network).

  New open-source research toolkit released by Talos to hunt, classify, and track emerging AI-integrated malware using a metadata-first methodology to identify cognitive artifacts (prompt templates, API keys, jailbreak terms) without reverse engineering the binary; includes YARA-based classification t

• [tl;dr sec] #347 - AI Agents Hacking Companies for $25, Threat Hunter's Guide to GitHub, Finding Gadgets Like it’s 2026
  articleas tools2026-09-24

  Open-source AI harness for autonomous exploitation used by the threat actor

• Autonomous AI Agents Hack Online Retailers for $25 a Company
  writeupas tools2026-09-22

  Open source autonomous end-to-end penetration testing engine that takes target domains and an objective (e.g. shell or admin access) and runs until achieved, timed out, or stopped; used DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

• The Closed Quorum: Inside the First Reported Autonomous AI C2 Implant
  writeupas tools2026-09-22

  Cisco Talos' open-source research toolkit for tracking AI-integrated malware; used to discover CLOSEDQUORUM

• Introducing CAIRN: Frontier tracking for AI-integrated malware (Cisco Talos)
  toolas tools2026-09-22It is written here as CAIRN (Cognitive Artifact Intelligence Research Network).

  Research toolkit released by Cisco Talos for hunting, classifying, and tracking emerging AI-integrated malware using metadata-first analysis, without downloading or executing binaries

• oritera/Cairn
  repoas tools2026-05-10

  General-purpose problem-solving engine built on a Blackboard Architecture with an explicit fact-intent graph; validated on AI penetration testing, supports CTF solving, security assessment, and vulnerability research workflows

• CAIRN — Cisco Talos AI-Malware-Hunting Toolkit
  repoas toolsIt is written here as CAIRN (Cognitive Artifact Intelligence Research Network).

  Research toolkit by Cisco Talos for identifying, attributing, and tracking AI-related artifacts embedded in malware, working exclusively from VirusTotal metadata (no binary downloads or detonation)