Jackpot Panda, also written JackpotPanda and tracked by CrowdStrike as JACKPOT PANDA, is a China state-linked cyberespionage threat actor primarily targeting entities in East and Southeast Asia. The group uses shared anonymization infrastructure for reconnaissance, exploitation, and command-and-control, obscuring its operational origins and complicating attribution between Chinese threat groups. In December 2025, Jackpot Panda was observed attempting to exploit CVE-2025-55182, known as React2Shell, within hours of its public disclosure on December 3. The vulnerability enables unauthenticated remote code execution in React Server Components and affected frameworks such as Next.js. Its use for initial access demonstrates the group's ability to rapidly exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities in internet-facing applications.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
12 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
3 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
3 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 3 of them exploited in the wild.
AWS reported within hours of public disclosure, multiple China state-nexus threat groups, including Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda, had been exploiting CVE-2025-55182 for initial access.
Amazon threat intelligence teams observed them simultaneously exploiting other recent N-day vulnerabilities, including CVE-2025-1338.
The flaw has been tracked as CVE-2025-55182 for React and CVE-2025-66478 for Next.js, but Mitre... rejected the second CVE as duplicative.
3 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Jackpot Panda is a China-linked group exploiting web application vulnerabilities for remote code execution and web shell deployment.
China-linked espionage group exploiting CVE-2025-55182 for initial access and persistence in cloud and technology sectors in APAC.
Listed as a threat actor associated in the report’s aggregated section with exploitation activity around React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) and related RSC/Next.js vulnerabilities.
Named in an aggregated list of actors associated with React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) exploitation activity.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.