Malware that takes technical cues from a poem to assemble a growing botnet by targeting open-source AI services has compromised more than 3,400 servers since April, Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs said in a report Wednesday. The poem, which a threat actor wrote and posted on a GitHub repository, seems innocuous but it’s driving a stealthy piece of malware researchers call PoeLLM.
PoeLLM malware has assembled a sweeping botnet, taking technical cues from a poem
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