Expensive cryptomining attacks on cloud infrastructures
Trend Micro, one of the world's leading providers of cybersecurity solutions, publishes a new research report on cryptomining. The report details how cybercriminals are compromising and misusing corporate cloud infrastructures. Again and again, different groups even fight for control of the affected systems. The report shows that threat actors are increasingly looking for and exploiting vulnerable entities. Among other things, they use brute-forcing of SecureShell (SSH) credentials to compromise cloud resources for cryptocurrency mining. Victims often exhibit outdated cloud software in the cloud environment, lack of cloud security hygiene, or insufficient knowledge of the…