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Cryptocurrency Ecosystem => Privacy Coins Forum => Monero Forum => Topic started by: Oxumare on June 12, 2020, 01:57:34 PM
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Hackers have attacked badly configured machine learning clusters on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing network, and hijacked them to mine Monero.
Microsoft announced on June 10 that it had discovered a number of cryptojacking attacks on powerful machine-learning clusters on its Azure cloud computing network.
In a blog-post, the company said that some customers had misconfigured nodes, allowing attackers to hijack them to mine the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero (XMR).
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Microsoft said that it had discovered tens of clusters affected by the attack, which targets a machine learning toolkit, Kubeflow, for the open-source Kubernetes platform.
By default the dashboard to control Kubeflow is only accessible internally from the node, so users need to use port-forwarding to tunnel in via the Kubernetes API. However, some users had modified this, potentially for convenience, directly exposing the dashboard to the internet.
With access to the dashboard, attackers had a number of available vectors through which to compromise the system.
Read More (https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsoft-azure-machine-learning-clusters-cryptojacked-to-mine-monero)