Hacked cloud accounts are being used to mine crypto, says Google
advertisement A report released this week by Google indicates that a majority of recently attacked accounts on its Google Cloud Platform service were used to mine cryptocurrency. The Threat Horizons report for November stated that “[m]alicious actors were observed performing cryptocurrency mining within compromised Cloud instances.” “Of 50 recently compromised GCP instances, 86% of the compromised Google Cloud instances were used to perform cryptocurrency mining, a cloud resource-intensive for-profit activity, which typically consumed CPU/GPU resources, or in cases of Chia …
