Hackers attack computers in Europe to mine crypto
The devices from the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain, which were used to analyze the coronavirus, were turned off after the attack in order to investigate what happened
A group of hackers breached at least 13 computers in Europe, the processing of which was partially diverted for cryptocurrency mining.
The criminals violated the security of equipments located in universities and research centers in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Switzerland.
The owners of these kits, which were used to analyze the spread of the coronavirus, were temporarily turned off to investigate what happened.
Chris Doman, co-founder of the security firm Cado Security, indicated that the hackers stole the credentials from the members of the universities, managed to enter the system and deploy an application or malware for monero mining (XMR), one of the cryptocurrencies targeted to privacy.
The institutions affected include the University of Edinburgh with its ARCHER supercomputer, the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of Ulm, the University of Tübingen, the Julich Research Center, the Faculty of Physics of the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS) in Zurich, among others.
K. Tovar
Source: Muycomputero
