{"id":53709,"date":"2021-11-29T13:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53709"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T13:33:44","slug":"86-of-compromised-google-cloud-accounts-were-used-for-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/86-of-compromised-google-cloud-accounts-were-used-for-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"86% of compromised Google Cloud accounts were used for mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main objective of breaching accounts on Google&#8217;s Cloud platform is their use for mining, <a href=\"https:\/\/services.google.com\/fh\/files\/misc\/gcat_threathorizons_full_nov2021.pdf\">stated<\/a> by Cybersecurity Action Team specialists.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 50 breached accounts analyzed by experts, 86% were used for mining cryptocurrency. The software required for this was downloaded on average 22 seconds after the breach.<\/p>\n<p>In many cases, attackers gained access to the accounts due to weak protections on the part of the users themselves, analysts noted.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in June, Avast specialists said that since the beginning of 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/dirtymoe-botnet-potentially-infected-tens-of-thousands-of-computers-in-russia-with-hidden-miners\"> around 65,000 computers in Russia were infected with the DirtyMoe botnet <\/a>, whose main aim is to install a hidden cryptocurrency miner.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main objective of hacking Google Cloud accounts is their use for mining, according to specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,738],"class_list":["post-53709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-google"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53711,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53709\/revisions\/53711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}