Alchemist and Insect Attacks

Cisco's Talus Research Team published a blog post today describing a new attack framework that they are calling Alchemist and Insect. The overall design is reminiscent of Manjuska, if I pronounced this correctly, a Command Control Framework that Talus discovered the short while ago. As a victim connects to the Alchemist Command Control Server, the insect payload is then generated on the fly.