Hackers Utilize Negative Hotel Reviews to Spread AI-Variant Malware; Hiding C2 on Blockchain

Executive Summary Cofense Intelligence is tracking email campaigns targeting the hospitality accommodation industry with fake guest complaints, negative reviews, and inquiry-related messages that deliver blockchain technology-abusing malware, via a report published 7 October 2026. The campaigns use links to archive files containing malicious LNK shortcut files masquerading as JPG images, which ultimately install either EtherRAT…

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