
A highly sophisticated, worm-like malware campaign now demonstrates the industrial scale at which cybercriminals can automatically compromise and weaponize modern cloud-native infrastructures. Known as Operation PCPcat, this threat represents a significant escalation, transforming common misconfigurations and known vulnerabilities into a self-propagating criminal ecosystem. The campaign, which gained notoriety around December 2025, underscores a pivotal shift in cybercrime, where the focus










