'This is a first for us': Attackers uses poem to infect thousands of servers with malware

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A threat actor built malware that reads poems posted on GitHub

The poems are a secret code for the location of C2 servers

The servers instruct the malware to deploy cryptojackers and scanners

Somewhere in the trackless wastes of cyberspace, a digital Robert Langdon is decoding an ancient poem to find the location of his masters and receive instructions on his next steps. I might be exaggerating a bit, but this is the gist of a…