There’s no honor among thieves as a new worm steals from other infectious software. It pilfers “multiple” victims’ credentials and mines for cryptocurrency while killing competitors’ processes, including similar secret-harvesting malware.
It’s called Cloud AI Infrastructure Attack Framework (CAI), and it’s a centralized botnet that targets cloud-native developer tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, etcd, Kubelet, and Ray for credential theft and cryptomining.
The scripts “are heavily inspired” by the likes of other similar credential-stealing worms that have wreaked havoc across cloud environments and supply chains this year, “using code comments like ‘PCPJack-aligned,’” according to security researcher Michael R.
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Source: The Register
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