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These are crypto mining schemes, though. This looks a lot more like run of the mill money making cybercrime than espionage - I don't think any nation state woul
by zaxu 6y ago
These are crypto mining schemes, though. This looks a lot more like run of the mill money making cybercrime than espionage - I don't think any nation state would be interested in outing themselves for a pittance in bitcoin.
- orbifold 6y agoAt least according to this incident report https://csirt.egi.eu/academic-data-centers-abused-for-crypto-currency-mining/ https://csirt.egi.eu/academic-data-centers-abused-for-crypto..., one of the two attacks had "unknown purpose". In particular it was not tied to crypto mining.
- zaxu 6y agoFrom the site you linked, the one with "unknown" motive has exclusively attacked Chinese academic victims. It would be extremely bizarre to suggest that the Chinese government is behind this.
- zaxu 6y agoAh, I misread the table. This is very suggestive, then.
- orbifold 6y agoThe second one is the attack that spread all the way to a basement HPC cluster in the Physics Institute at LMU Munich, the IP addresses listed are indicators to look for that your system might be compromised, not the victims of the attack.
- scarmig 6y agoIt's worth pointing out that countries regularly hack and attack their own citizens. In some ways, it's more important to know what they're doing than what your opponents' are.
- eloisius 6y agoWould they set up a crypto mining scheme to obfuscate the origin and intent of the attack though?