You can file this next bit of news under a creative but uniquely sophisticated category of software engineering. Black Lotus Labs security researchers have discovered a new botnet, powering a rather insidious malware campaign, called PoeLLM. Like any other malware, the goal is to infect as many systems as possible and take control — this one scoops up infected machines into a botnet to build a remote web of servers. What’s different about it, however, is that it utilizes a poem, published on…







