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Sead Fadilpašić

Ray clusters hijacked and turned into crypto miners by shadowy new botnet

Bitcoin.
  • Ray clusters remain vulnerable to remote code execution via unauthenticated Jobs API
  • Threat group “IronErn440” exploits flaw with AI-generated payloads, deploying XMRig cryptojacker
  • Over 230,000 Ray servers are exposed online, up from a few thousand in 2023

Ray clusters, still vulnerable to a critical severity flaw discovered years ago, are being used for cryptocurrency mining, data exfiltration, and even Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, experts have warned.

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