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September 27, 2026

Gambit's numbers on the agentic e-commerce campaign are now public, adding hard denominators to the story we covered on 23 September. A Chinese-speaking, financially motivated actor ran Strix 146 times in deep mode against 138 hosts between 23–31 August (via OpenRouter on GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek v4 Pro), handed the reports to Cairn for 105 attack projects between 10–15 September on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash, and used Hermes with a Chinese system persona and 121 skills (78 of them attack skills) on Anthropic's opus-4.6 for orchestration. At least 27 companies compromised in that five-day window, over 600,000 unexpired credit cards stolen from two of them, skimmers injected into five stores, and 1,951 human-typed prompts across 260 sessions — a few short Chinese instructions per target (SecurityWeek). Danny Chez's follow-up pivots the hunt from rotating C2 domains to the injected code's packer characteristics, expanding from one observed injection to 50+ shops (write-up). · Threat Activity