New ShadowRay attacks convert Ray clusters into crypto miners
A global campaign dubbed ShadowRay 2.0 hijacks exposed Ray Clusters by exploiting an old code execution flaw to turn them into a self-propagating cryptomining botnet.
Developed by Anyscale, the Ray open-source framework allows building and scaling AI and Python applications in a distributed computing ecosystem organized in clusters, or head nodes.
According to researchers at runtime security company Oligo, a threat actor they track as IronErn440 is using AI-generated payloads to compromise vulnerable Ray infrastructure that is reachable over the public internet.
They say that the malicious activity goes beyond cryptocurrency mining, and in some cases, it includes data and credentials theft, as well as…
