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Attacker exploits misconfigured AI tool to run AI-generated payload

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The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) recently observed a malicious threat actor targeting a misconfigured system hosting Open WebUI, a popular application (95k stars on GitHub) that provides an extensible, self-hosted A…
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Recently, the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has observed a malicious attacker targeting a misconfigured system that hosted "Open WebUI." This is a popular application that provides an expandable, self-hosted AI interface to improve large language models (LLMs). Via this access, the attacker has been able to include malicious code and a [...] The article Cybercriminals use incorrectly configured AI tool to run AI-generated payloads first appe…

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Sysdig broke the news in on Monday, June 2, 2025.
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