In a groundbreaking move, cybercriminals have decided to forgo subtlety altogether, proudly announcing their new partnership with Cloudflare to deliver RATs (Remote Access Trojans) in the most over-engineered phishing chains known to mankind. The campaign, lovingly dubbed SERPENTINE#CLOUD by the security aficionados at Securonix, has proven once and for all that when life hands you cloud infrastructure, you make cyber lemonade!

The campaign’s masterminds, taking a page from the Silicon Valley playbook, have decided that if you’re going to ruin someone’s digital life, it should be a seamless, cloud-hosted experience. And what better way to do that than leveraging Cloudflare Tunnel subdomains? Now, victims can enjoy malicious payloads delivered straight to the comfort of their own inboxes, complete with phishing email attachments that scream ‘open me’ like an unmarked van with free wifi written on the side.

The security industry is abuzz with admiration, or perhaps it’s just an endless cycle of eye rolls, at the sophistication of these Python-based loaders. They’re not just any loaders; they’re memory-injected payloads that arrive through a chain of shortcut files with the kind of obfuscation level that would confuse even the most seasoned bureaucrat. One can only sit in awe of how malware campaigns have elevated themselves to the realm of corporate-level efficiency, proving that cybercrime, much like startup culture, is all about innovation.