NewsThe Hacker News2026-10-07 15:33 UTC

PoeLLM Malware Infects 3,400+ Servers to Expand Crypto Mining Botnet

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware family that has been observed targeting exposed artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) infrastructure with an aim to deploy cryptocurrency miners and further expand the scale of the botnet. The financially motivated campaign, dubbed Canto Incognito, has been found to install cryptocurrency miners, including

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