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Cryptocurrency miners using hacked cloud accounts, Google warns
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Cyberhackers are using compromised cloud accounts to mine cryptocurrency, Google has warned.
Details of the mining hack are contained in a report by Google’s cybersecurity action team, which spots hacking threats against its cloud service – a remote storage system where Google stores customers’ data and files off-site – and gives advice on how to tackle them.
Other threats identified by the team in its first “threat horizon” report include: Russian state hackers attempting to gain users’ passwords by warning they have been targeted by government-backed attackers; North Korean hackers posing as Samsung job recruiters; and the use of heavy encryption in ransomware attacks.
“Mining” is the name for the process by which blockchains such as those
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