HP-Branded Servers Hijacked to Mine $110,000 Worth of Cryptocurrency
Hackers recently took control of a group of HP-branded servers and used them to remotely mine a cryptocurrency called raptoreum, according to reports. This resulted in the compromised cluster of HP machines becoming the biggest contributor to the total mining pool of the cryptocurrency, allowing attackers to rake in $110,000 worth. The coins are said to have been mined between December 9 and December 17. HP Servers Suffer Cryptojacking Attack A group of HP servers operating for an undisclosed company was attacked by hackers that managed to take control of the hardware and....
Related News
AsNAS systems are being targeted, criminals seem to prefer to exploit the Seagate Central Network Attached Storage. Over the past few years, there have been multiple versions of malware causing harm to computer users. But some of these tools will also attempt to mine cryptocurrency on behalf of the criminal. Several new types of crypto mining malware have been discovered recently, all of which target NAS servers. Not the most profitable way of mining cryptocurrency, but since it is entirely free for the criminal, it is worth a shot. The new report released by SophosLabs goes to show....
When online backup provider IDrive tried their hand at mining bitcoin with a slew of servers at their disposal, they thought it might serve to be an additional way to bring in revenue. How wrong they were. The company says they own 3,000 servers, but for the bitcoin mining experiment, 600 were used (each with a quad-core processor clocked at 2.8GHz). The idea was to get the servers to mine the digital currency during the off-peak hours of 3AM-4PM (as most people tend to back up their systems during the night). Using the assumption that the servers would run at 100 percent processing power....
Hackers have been mining crypto on government servers in Russia, including defense contractors and medical centers, expert says.
IT specialists at the Iowa State University have reportedly discovered a data breach that has affected five departmental servers located on-campus, we're learning. Specifically, the University's statement on the matter indicates that the servers were attacked by an unknown entity/group to be used for mining bitcoins by harnessing their computing power. According to the University, the servers held 29,780 Social Security numbers belonging to students who attended the University from 1995 through 2012 and took classes in Computer Science (1995-2005), World Languages and Cultures (2004, 2007,....
Hacking into NAS (network attached storage) devices commonly used on home networks a hijacker has managed to mine about $200,000 in Dogecoin at current market rates (1000 Doge = $0.35). NAS boxes manufactured by Synology where targeted to create a botnet of infected devices. The combined computing power of the storage servers was directed at a private pool which was mining Dogecoin. The hijacker generated approximately 500 million Dogecoin between Janurary and April through which users of the Synology NAS boxes reported poor performance on their devices and high CPU usage reading even when....