Hackers Hijack Tesla’s Cloud Environment to Mine Crypto
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 1:09 pm
With the boom in the digital economy, cyber crime has surged. Hackers have even progressed from pulling off scams and stealing money from user wallets, and are now targeting the giant cloud computing rigs of large industries.
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A report published on Tuesday by the ‘Cloud Security Intelligence’ team of security firm RedLock revealed that hackers were infiltrating the public cloud computing environment of Tesla, the world’s leading electric car manufacturer, in order to mine cryptocurrency.
Hackers accessed Tesla’s AWS cloud environment using a non-password protected Kubernetes software container. This Kubernetes ... (read more)