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Jackpot Panda is a China-nexus cyber espionage threat actor primarily associated with targeting organizations in East and Southeast Asia. Reporting links its operations to intelligence collection priorities related to domestic security and corruption concerns. The actor has been observed exploiting newly disclosed web application vulnerabilities very rapidly, including CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell), within hours of public disclosure. Operationally, Jackpot Panda has been tied to exploitation of internet-facing applications for initial access, followed by deployment of post-exploitation tooling such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, and Vshell. Observed behavior indicates use of automated scanning and exploitation at scale, as well as hands-on intrusion activity in some campaigns. The actor is associated with broader China state-nexus activity and has been discussed alongside other Chinese intrusion clusters such as Earth Lamia, although publicly available reporting does not establish a confirmed group relationship beyond overlapping exploitation of the same vulnerability ecosystem. Known aliases include JackpotPanda and jackpot_panda. Available evidence supports characterization as a Chinese state-linked espionage actor rather than a financially motivated or ransomware-focused operation.
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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.
On December 5, 2025, just two days after the public disclosure of CVE-2025-55182 – a maximum-severity remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components (RSCs) – the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) recovered a novel implant from a compromised Next.js application.
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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CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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