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posted by cmn32480 on Monday May 18 2020, @08:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the take-the-money-and-run dept.

Crypto-Mining Campaign Hits European Supercomputers:

Several supercomputers across Europe were taken offline last week after being targeted in what appears to be a crypto-mining campaign.

In a notice on Saturday, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) revealed that it too has been hit, along with other “HPC [High Performance Computing] and academic data centres of Europe and around the world.”

CSCS said it detected malicious activity related to these attacks and it has decided to suspend external access until the issue is addressed.

[...] While CSCS’ notice says that the background of the attack is currently unclear, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) security team issued an alert claiming that the purpose of the attack is cryptocurrency mining.

EGI mentions two security incidents “that may or may not be correlated,” which impact academic data centers, revealing that compromised SSH credentials are being used by the attackers to jump from a victim to another.

As part of the assaults, compromised hosts are being used as Monero (XMR) mining hosts, as XMR-proxy and SOCKS-proxy hosts, and as tunnel hosts (for SSH tunneling), EGI’s team explains.

[...] The attacks targeted multiple victims in Germany, including the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)-maintained JURECA, JUDAC, and JUWELS, the HPC systems at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), the Taurus supercomputer at the Technical University in Dresden, and five HPC clusters coordinated by bwHPC, among others.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 18 2020, @10:23PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday May 18 2020, @10:23PM (#996050) Homepage

    That's because Germany is the cornerstone of the EU, and the EU is run by Khazar Jews with no loyalty to any one nation, or even the entire union. Khazar Jews go where the money is, and if the money ain't there anymore, they're now China's best friend. Ask David Zuckerburg from Facebook or pretty much any executive from Disney or Google. Or watch the NBA, as the games are entertaining but the league is run by Khazar Jews now pivoting towards China (as Hollywood is) and keeping them' house-niggas in-line.

    If you want to see exactly why for the latter, then let me show you. These [cbsistatic.com] were the uniforms chosen for the 2020 NBA All-star game. Notice the layout of the star, it's not exactly the 5-pointed star most associated with American patriotism. Couple that with the actual fact that the NBA are run by Jews, and the Jewish arrogance that got them kicked out of over a hundred nations over the years becomes all too apparent. Also:

    LeBron James on China: "I don't do politics, long as I made dat money and get muh fame fuck politics. I be like Jay-Z 'n'sheeit.
    LeBron James on Trump: "Fuck Trump. Dat cracka gun down a jogga cuz my Jewish mastas make me say Trump bad. I don't do politics but China good and Trump bad."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @01:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 19 2020, @01:55AM (#996127)

    Nazi-style Jewish conspiracy? This is pretty low effort even for you.