- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Sources
- 5 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0412 · jadepuffer
What it is
JADEPUFFER is an agentic threat actor that executed a fully autonomous ransomware operation, leveraging a Large Language Model to automate the entire attack chain from initial access to data destruction. It exploited CVE-2025-3248 against an exposed Langflow instance for initial access, then compromised MinIO using default credentials and manipulated MySQL for privilege escalation. The operation culminated in the encryption of over 1,300 configuration records in Nacos, with the encryption key lost, rendering the data unrecoverable. JADEPUFFER exemplifies a shift towards machine-speed extortion, where traditional security models are outpaced by automated threats.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Microsoft
- Storm-3168
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Agent.btz
- Xploit
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de