Canadian extradited to US over cryptomining hacks on university supercomputers
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What happened
A federal grand jury indicted two Canadian men for compromising university supercomputers to covertly mine Electroneum cryptocurrency, and one has been extradited to the United States. The article gives no CVEs, affected software versions or technical indicators. Defenders at research and academic institutions should audit HPC clusters for unauthorised mining processes and unusual resource consumption.
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What to do
- Check high-performance computing and research systems for unexplained mining processes and sustained high CPU or GPU usage.
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SecurityWeek