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This report summarizes patch deployment behavior observed in Acronis telemetry during the second half of 2025. It focuses on patching for Microsoft and third-party applications, and on not whether patching can be done, but how fast patches are actually applied across all devices.

Over the past few weeks, OpenClaw has rapidly evolved from a niche open‑source project into one of the most widely discussed examples of agentic AI in practice. This combination of intelligence, autonomy and integration is precisely why OpenClaw has captured attention across developer and security communities. It is also why it has become a focal point for serious security concerns.

Operation Winter SHIELD is an FBI Cyber Division initiative that has distilled theoretical best practices into ten concrete actions designed to reduce the likelihood of system compromise when attackers strike, and limit damage when incidents occur by focusing on controls that matter most in practice, not on paper.

Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) observed a targeted malware campaign against U.S. government entities leveraging a politically themed ZIP archive containing a loader executable and a malicious DLL. The executable is used to sideload and execute the DLL, which functions as the primary backdoor, tracked as LOTUSLITE.

In a newly identified campaign, internally referred to as Boto Cor-de-Rosa, our researchers discovered that Astaroth now exploits WhatsApp Web as part of its propagation strategy.

This report is the result of a collaborative investigation between Hunt.io and the Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU), in which both teams collaborated to map ongoing DPRK infrastructure activity, including Lazarus and Kimsuky.