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Tricks from the Past deployed via signed ChatGPT and Claude binaries

Published by
Check Point Research
Published
27 Oct 2026
Indicators
2 verified

The report

Key Points Introduction Over the past two months, we have been tracking a campaign that abuses the popularity of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to spread a custom malware chain we call Yoba. The attackers use fake GitHub projects that pretend to be AI desktop applications like GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude […]

Check Point Research

Read the full analysis: Tricks from the Past deployed via signed ChatGPT and Claude binaries (Check Point Research).

Indicators

Malware C

  • calm-piano-floats-313[.]dedyn[.]io

Mining Pool

  • 3zciedc3enu4muwc5adxciyk6u3juhvhvbv6bfrk2arawlvb7k7ovxad[.]onion

Defanged so they cannot be clicked by mistake: replace [.] with a dot. Shared hosting and CDN addresses named in the report are left out on purpose, so blocking these does not break legitimate sites.

How this is tracked

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