Someone hacked a Tesla cloud account to mine cryptocurrencyBY JACK MORSE 7 HOURS AGO
https://mashable.com/2018/02/20/tesla-hacked-cryptocurrency-mining/#Ovcg91vqo5q9There's digital gold in them thar computers, and hackers are digging their way in.
Tesla is hailed as a cutting-edge company known for setting the agenda in its field, but when it comes to being the victim of malicious hackers hijacking its computer resources to mine cryptocurrency, it turns out it's just like everyone else.
According to cloud security company
RedLock, Tesla has joined the growing list of companies that have been subjected to what experts call cryptojacking — a practice involving the theft of computer processing power to mine
cryptocurrencies like bitcoin or Monero.
Hackers reportedly took control of Tesla’s (non-password protected) Kubernetes console — something that helps to administer a
Google-designed "managed environment for deploying containerized applications" — and installed and ran crypto-mining software.
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Interestingly, whoever was behind the Tesla hack went to great pains to cover their tracks. According to RedLock, "the hackers had most likely configured the mining software to keep the [CPU] usage low to evade detection." Unexplained spiking CPU usage is often seen as a red flag for potential cryptojacking.
What's more, the attackers also "hid the true IP address of the mining pool server behind CloudFlare, a free content delivery network (CDN) service."
Basically, whoever was behind this really didn't want to get caught (surprise), and had some great tricks up their sleeve to evade detection. [...]