Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers

Regular internet users and corporations are not the only victims of malicious hackers. Sometimes, the hackers themselves get hacked . That is what happened in an unusual hacking campaign, where an unknown group of hackers targeted systems already compromised by a prolific cybercrime group known as TeamPCP. Once the hackers broke into those systems, they immediately kicked out TeamPCP hackers and removed their tools, according to a new report by cybersecurity firm SentinelOne. From there, the hackers use their access to deploy code designed to replicate across different cloud infrastructure like a self-spreading worm, steal various types of credentials, and finally send the stolen data back to their infrastructure. TeamPCP is a cybercriminal group that has gathered headlines in the last few weeks, thanks to a series of high profile hacks attributed to the group. Those hacks have included a breach of the European Commission’s cloud infrastructure , and a broadscale cyberattack against widely used vulnerability scanner tool Trivvy , which affected any company that relied on it, including LiteLLM and AI recruiting startup Mercor , among others. Alex Delamotte, the SentinelOne senior researcher who found the new hacking campaign and dubbed it “PCPJack,” told TechCrunch that it’s not clear who is behind it. …