Group of people managed to use the resources of companies Aviva and Gemalto in the Amazon Cloud for mining cryptocurrency. This writes Bitcoinist citing a report specializing in matters of security of the company RedLock. According to the publication, the opportunity pamineti hackers was due to the fact that the administrative console Kubernetes was not password protected. It is also noted that the hackers used the access to confidential information of the companies, and only used for mining cryptocurrency.
- “After deep analysis, the team concluded that the hackers extracted a cryptocurrency, using one of the containers Kubernetes. The latter was turned into “parasitic bot” that would do a malicious act on the Internet”, — stated in the October report RedLock.
