Thousands of hijacked servers have been looking up their command and control (C2) server in a poem posted on GitHub, according to Black Lotus Labs. The malware reading it, dubbed PoeLLM, breaks into exposed AI services and open-source tools, mines cryptocurrency on them and uses them to hunt for new victims. The researchers call the campaign Canto Incognito and believe it is the work of an Italian-speaking threat actor who appears to be in it … More →
Cryptomining botnet hides C2 addresses in GitHub poem, infects over 3,400 servers
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