![]() In the majority of cases, cryptocurrency mining software was downloaded within 22 seconds of the account being compromised, Google said.Īround 10% of the compromised accounts were also used to conduct scans of other publicly available resources on the internet to identify vulnerable systems, while 8% of instances were used to attack other targets. Google said 86% of 50 recently compromised Google Cloud accounts were used to perform cryptocurrency mining. Google Cloud is a remote storage platform where customers can keep data and files off-site. "Malicious actors were observed performing cryptocurrency mining within compromised Cloud instances," Google wrote in an executive summary of the report.Ĭryptocurrency mining is a for-profit activity that often requires large amounts of computing power, which Google Cloud customers can access at a cost.
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