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TeamPCP Traced Back to 2020 Cryptojacking Operation

The group behind March's cascading supply chain attacks on open-source developer tools has been linked to infrastructure attacks dating back to 2020 and the first known self-propagating botnet built from hijacked AI infrastructure. New research published by Oligo Security on August 5 showed that TeamPCP shares domains, malware deployment paths and backend infrastructure with activity previously tracked as TA-NATALSTATUS between 2020 and August 2025. Oligo Security worked with Mandiant and GitLab on the investigation, and GitLab banned the accounts involved. The firm also assessed that TeamPCP ran ShadowRay 2.0, the campaign it documented in November 2025 against exposed Ray clusters, which it had attributed at the time to an actor called IronErn440. A Deployment Framework Reused for Years…

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Aug 6, 2026
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