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Security researchers from Black Lotus Labs have discovered a novel botnet, PoeLLM, which leverages a poem on GitHub as its command-and-control address.
Summary
By updating the words in the poem, the attacker can shift the control server location, making the botnet highly adaptive. The malware has infected thousands of servers, particularly those utilizing outdated open-source AI and LLM software, to conduct cryptocurrency mining and spread further.
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KazaSec's take
Incidents like this rarely start with the headline event itself, they usually trace back to an exposed remote-access endpoint, an unpatched perimeter system, or a credential phished weeks earlier. The organizations that recover fastest are the ones that tested their defenses and their incident response plan before they needed them.
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