ShadowRay

Campaign
2 incidents First seen 2026-08-07 Last seen 2026-08-18
Overview

ShadowRay was a campaign that began in late 2023 targeting the education, cryptocurrency, biopharma, and other sectors through a vulnerability (CVE-2023-48022) in the Ray AI framework named ShadowRay. According to security researchers ShadowRay was the first known instance of AI workloads being activley exploited in the wild through vulnerabilities in AI infrastructure. CVE-2023-48022, which allows access to compute resources and sensitive data for exposed instances, remains unpatched and has been disputed by the vendor as they maintain that Ray is not intended for use outside of a strictly controlled network environment.

Threat ecosystem
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At a glance
peak priority 170 11 techniques in ATT&CK since 2024-12-02 updated 2026-07-31 · v1.0
Activity by month (incidents)
2026-082026-08
Sectors targeted
government · 1technology · 1
Origin
IR · 1
Kinds of incident
Cyberattack (general) · 1Exploited Vulnerability · 1
Techniques seen in incidents
Botnet · 2Phishing · 2T1059.006 - Python · 2Cryptojacking · 1Ddos · 1Extortion · 1Impersonation · 1Ransomware · 1T1584.004 - Server · 1T1588.006 - Vulnerabilities · 1Wiper · 1
Related malware
CanisterWorm · 1
Related actors
TeamPCP · 1
Related CVEs
CVE-2025-62593 · 1
ATT&CK techniques by tactic (11)
resource development T1588.002 Tool
initial access T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
execution T1059.006 Python
persistence T1546.004 Unix Shell Configuration Modification
privilege escalation T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation T1546.004 Unix Shell Configuration Modification
credential access T1003.008 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow
discovery T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
command and control T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
impact T1496.001 Compute Hijacking
stealth T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File