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Bandcampro AI-Assisted Fraud Campaign

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Summary

Between September 2025 and May 2026, a solo Russian-speaking threat actor operating under the handle 'bandcampro' conducted a sustained AI-assisted fraud and credential-theft campaign targeting MAGA and QAnon communities to steal cryptocurrency. The actor deployed a jailbroken Google Gemini CLI — with safety guardrails persistently disabled via a GEMINI.md context injection file — as the operational backbone of an automated social engineering, influence operation, and hacking pipeline. The campaign is documented in a May 2026 Trend Micro research report titled 'Inside the 5-Year Influence and Fraud Patriot Bait Campaign.'

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□Bandcampro AI-Assisted Fraud Campaign
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    Timeline(7 events)

    2021

    Telegram channel @americanpatriotus established by bandcampro, beginning a multi-year persona-building phase impersonating an American military veteran.

    Trend Micro — Inside the 5-Year Influence and Fraud Patriot Bait Campaign

    September 2025

    AI-assisted campaign phase begins. Actor integrates jailbroken Gemini CLI via GEMINI.md context injection and launches the Quantum Patriot automated content pipeline.

    The Register

    9 September 2025

    StellarMonSetup.exe (GoToResolve RAT posing as a Stellar wallet) distributed to Telegram channel subscribers with a bait offer of up to 1,000 XLM.

    CyberPress — Russian Hacker Used Jailbroken Gemini to Steal Crypto Wallets

    September 2025

    Gemini used to validate and build a round-robin rotator for 73 allegedly stolen Gemini API keys, published to GitHub, reducing operational compute cost to near zero.

    GBHackers — Jailbroken Gemini AI Abused in Credential Theft and Crypto Wallet Heist

    2026

    Actor confirmed to have compromised 29 WordPress administrator accounts using Gemini-generated password mutation lists combined with infostealer logs.

    CybersecurityNews — Russian Hacker Used Jailbroken Gemini

    May 2026

    Trend Micro TrendAI researchers complete infrastructure discovery and analysis. At least one victim's full crypto wallet confirmed drained; 40+ wallet addresses harvested from that victim.

    Trend Micro — Inside the 5-Year Influence and Fraud Patriot Bait Campaign

    22 May 2026

    Trend Micro publishes 'Inside the 5-Year Influence and Fraud Patriot Bait Campaign.' The Register, CybersecurityNews, Security Boulevard, and other outlets report on findings.

    The Register
    Provenance & Audit Trail
    Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain7 Wayback Archives

    Decision Log

    This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 events). 7 of 8 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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    model: claude-code-investigator

    generated: 5/27/2026, 8:27:41 PM

    last updated: 8/25/2026, 7:47:39 PM

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