{"id":188254,"date":"2026-02-17T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/researchers-show-copilot-and-grok-can-be-abused-as-malware-c2-proxies\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:15:11","slug":"researchers-show-copilot-and-grok-can-be-abused-as-malware-c2-proxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/researchers-show-copilot-and-grok-can-be-abused-as-malware-c2-proxies\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/researchers-show-copilot-and-grok-can.html\">Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/researchers-show-copilot-and-grok-can.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/researchers-show-copilot-and-grok-can.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-17 13:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI as a C2 Proxy<\/strong>: Cybersecurity researchers have shown that AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and xAI Grok can be misused as stealthy command-and-control (C2) relays, allowing attackers to blend into legitimate communications.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Methodology<\/strong>: This attack leverages anonymous web access and sums up browsing prompts, enabling attackers to dynamically generate actions, reconnaissance workflows, and even adapting behavior based on information from the compromised host.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>**No Need for  &#8211; The generated text has been blocked by our content filters.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers Show Copilot and Grok Can Be Abused as Malware C2 Proxies https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/researchers-show-copilot-and-grok-can.html Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgzYX37QWNtfn6KjpvO-G2qEj3m_ARN3yOl6MgQKaMMAAAw_EUE2o_zASrY9uGyYZhUXJbSY6n3nmo-hXvpBHnG7LL6Qm4KJi0GUv8eoRlSSqLQAQVU_pbSp6FzsJTrcNVdZef3J4L9HrK-kwm5oiT7_Hx6Perm-y-P0saLA9gsmp16shesbIqeBsG-WD6Z\/s1600\/grok-ai.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188256,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188254\/revisions\/188256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}