Piotr Bienias
Piotr Bienias is Adversary Researcher in Atos Threat Research Center with 5 years of experience in incident response, malware analysis, and threat hunting. He has led and supported complex investigations involving advanced threats, detection evasion, and large‑scale security incidents, combining deep hands‑on analysis with detection engineering and applied security research. His work regularly contributes to technical reports and conference‑grade publications focused on real‑world attacker tradecraft.
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In early 2026, Atos Threat Research Center (TRC) identified a sophisticated, high-resilience malicious campaign distributing malware EtherRAT. This operation specifically targets high-privilege IT professionals - enterprise administrators, DevOps engineers and security analysts - who hold broad credentials within corporate environments. The attackers leverage a combination of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning, impersonated administrative tools and a decentralized Command-and-Control (C2) mechanism utilizing the Ethereum blockchain to maintain persistence and bypass traditional security trust models.