Crypto mining. It's a dirty word for PC gamers, but love it or leave it, action has long been the norm for miners and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. However, for a group of hackers, hacking into a data center full of HP servers and transforming them into miners was clearly a very lucrative option.
According to multiple sources, the hackers breached the data center cybersecurity and reprogrammed their HP servers to help them mine the Raptoreum cryptocurrency, between December 9 and 17. In total, hackers snatched roughly $ 110,000 worth of coin (~ RM461450), before sneaking off into the darknet.
As of this writing, the company that was hacked has no name yet, but it is quite possible that it was one of several victims of the Log4J vulnerability that includes Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft as their targets. However, the affected HP servers were found to be using AMD's EPYC 9000 hardware which, when manufactured to mine Raptoreum, was capable of mining at 400MH / s.
As a quick introduction, the Log4J vulnerability was discovered earlier this month and found to have the ability to enable remote execution on a system running as localhost, even if it has no external connections.
