Rust-Based P2PInfect Botnet Evolves with Miner and Ransomware Payloads

P2PInfect is an active Rust-based peer-to-peer botnet that targets misconfigured Redis servers to recruit victims into a mesh network and push updated payloads via a gossip mechanism. Recent updates add cryptocurrency miners, a ransomware component that encrypts files for 1 XMR, an LD_PRELOAD usermode rootkit to hide artifacts, SSH password-spraying, and scanning capabilities, indicating a financially motivated, opportunistic campaign likely operated as a botnet-for-hire.