Vibe Coded Extortion: Avalon’s Path from Legal Lure to CrownX Ransom Capabilities

Avalon is a newly discovered, AI-assisted malware framework that consolidates credential theft, lateral movement, recovery sabotage, and the CrownX ransomware into a single, memory-resident payload—demonstrating how a single phishing compromise can rapidly escalate into a widespread, destructive intrusion across interconnected systems.