9th March – Threat Intelligence Report
2026-03-09T20:52:32Z•5d9ef510ed94820d97a4b29d716210d8fa0758514150a5fc8418fdcfe3737f04
AI as C2AI-driven attacksAPI token exfiltrationAmaranth-DragonAnthropicAnubisCVE-2025-59536CVE-2025-8088CVE-2026-21852Claude CodeEuropeIP camera compromiseKONNIMiddle East operationsSilver DragonSoutheast AsiaeScanransomwareremote code executionsupply-chain compromisetargeted espionage
What happened
Check Point Research weekly collection (March 2026) summarizing multiple high-impact findings: discovery and tracking of “Silver Dragon”, a Chinese-aligned APT targeting government organizations in Southeast Asia and Europe; Amaranth-Dragon campaigns weaponizing CVE-2025-8088 for targeted espionage in SE Asia; critical remote-code-execution and API token-exfiltration vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code (CVE-2025-59536, CVE-2026-21852) enabling RCE and credential theft via project configs; KONNI (North Korean-linked) leveraging AI to generate PowerShell backdoors; analysis of Iranian-era
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- checkpoint_research
- Record identifier
- 5d9ef510ed94820d97a4b29d716210d8fa0758514150a5fc8418fdcfe3737f04
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-09T20:52:32Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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