Ukrainian law enforcement discovered a mining farm consisting of thousands of PlayStation 4 consoles

Last week, Ukrainian law enforcement officers discovered a huge mining farm in Vinnytsa after they noticed a large-scale electricity leak. It turned out that the attackers mined cryptocurrency right in one of the former warehouses of Vinnitsaoblenergo JSC, having illegally connected to the network. Law enforcers say that this is an illegal mining farm they… Continue reading Ukrainian law enforcement discovered a mining farm consisting of thousands of PlayStation 4 consoles

Microsoft warns of mining attacks on Kubernetes clusters

Microsoft has warned of ongoing attacks on Kubernetes clusters running Kubeflow (an open source project that allows running super powerful machine learning computing on top of Kubernetes clusters). Criminals use them to deploy malicious containers that mine Monero and Ethereum cryptocurrencies. Researchers say the attacks appear to be a continuation of a campaign that was… Continue reading Microsoft warns of mining attacks on Kubernetes clusters