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Apr 24, 2026
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Cyber News: Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2

Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate th...

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Tropic Trooper Uses Trojanized SumatraPDF and GitHub to Deploy AdaptixC2

Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which discovered the campaign last month, has attributed it with high confidence to Tropic Trooper (aka

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