{"id":220924,"date":"2026-05-27T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/ai-chatbot-recommendations-redirect-users-to-cryptojacking-malware-sites\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:15:16","slug":"ai-chatbot-recommendations-redirect-users-to-cryptojacking-malware-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/ai-chatbot-recommendations-redirect-users-to-cryptojacking-malware-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Chatbot Recommendations Redirect Users to Cryptojacking Malware Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/ai-chatbot-recommendations-redirect.html\">AI Chatbot Recommendations Redirect Users to Cryptojacking Malware Sites<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/ai-chatbot-recommendations-redirect.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/ai-chatbot-recommendations-redirect.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 03:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A cryptojacking campaign by Microsoft involves AI chatbot interactions to recommend malicious download sites, which extends traditional SEO poisoning and social engineering.<\/li>\n<li>The campaign targets users with high-performance GPUs by impersonating legitimate system utilities to maximize profitability through cryptocurrency mining.<\/li>\n<li>The technique aims to establish persistent remote access to compromised systems using ScreenConnect, enabling additional malicious activities like data theft or ransomware.<\/li>\n<li>Attackers use sophisticated methods to ensure persistence, configure Microsoft Defender exclusions, and employ process hollowing to run mining code under trusted binaries.<\/li>\n<li>Attack infrastructure uses a subdomain from gleeze[.]com hosted by Dynu, and over 150 malicious domains are identified.<\/li>\n<li>The malware deploys three miner programs: gminer, lolMiner, and SRBMiner-MULTI, and takes steps to maintain presence and reconfigure Defender exclusions.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft warns that threat actors continue to exploit over-privileged identities with sudo rights for stealthy persistence and credential theft.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft emphasizes the importance of verifying third-party service providers and management tools to prevent long-term access and credential abuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI Chatbot Recommendations Redirect Users to Cryptojacking Malware Sites https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/ai-chatbot-recommendations-redirect.html Publish Date: 2026-05-27 03:45:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhqt5LC8yrEqRzxRxEUTh3yZSnXovvZU0R11suWWfP1FEKvC5ZOpPnLHpdDjAzUADZarX1C3XucsG5OOXN3Zj4-esPhUnz4DBnAdDxkZw3aEqdH_HHPn4N5Eu03Y-tG_kEmPOxKyMH14wpiOYs9w8jh7U6MlHjHqiS4nNxLH_NpS47oR-mRW5GfuDvX9VFo\/s1600\/ai-tools.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220927,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220924\/revisions\/220927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}