How to Set Up Runtime Defense Against Threats Like Gafgyt

This report describes a Gafgyt malware variant that shifts from IoT targets to cloud-native and AI environments, exploiting weak SSH credentials and using fileless execution to deploy the XMRig cryptocurrency miner; it emphasizes the operational impact of increased cloud costs and degraded performance and recommends mitigation via Aqua Runtime Protection policies (block cryptomining, block fileless execution) and CSPM to reduce exposed SSH.