Attackers leveraged vulnerabilities in ComfyUI.
Around 700 global servers have been compromised with the Pickai stealer backdoor.
Malicious actors leveraged vulnerabilities in the artificial intelligence image-generation model ComfyUI, to facilitate the distribution of configuration file-spoofing ELF executables that lead to the injection of Pickai.
According to GBHackers News, Pickai pilfers AI-related information, runs remote commands, and creates reverse shell access, and also ensures covertness through process name impersonation, anti-debugging, and various persistence mechanisms.
A report from XLab showed that Pickai has been found in the commercial platform Rubrick.ai, which was also noted to use multiple command-and-control servers to harden its network without encryption.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
