{"id":55251,"date":"2021-12-27T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T08:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55251"},"modified":"2025-09-04T00:26:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:26:37","slug":"hackers-exploited-a-log4j-vulnerability-to-mine-on-hewlett-packard-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-exploited-a-log4j-vulnerability-to-mine-on-hewlett-packard-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers exploited a Log4j vulnerability to mine on Hewlett Packard servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious actors exploited a vulnerability in the popular Log4j library to gain control of AMD EPYC-based servers to mine the cryptocurrency Raptoreum. The report comes from <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/hacker-hijacks-hp-epyc-servers-raptoreum-crypto-mining\\\">Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raptoreum developers first detected an abnormal rise in hash rate on December 9. The number of devices involved in mining rose at a normal pace, while total compute power on the day of the breach nearly doubled from 200 MH\/s to 400 MH\/s.<\/p>\n<p>The Raptoreum team found that the attackers used compromised Hewlett Packard 9000 server hardware for mining.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers managed to obtain about 3.4 million Raptoreum tokens (over $80,000 at the time of writing). Subsequently 1.5 million tokens were sold on the CoinEx exchange. The remaining assets remain in a wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier reports indicated that attackers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/flaw-in-java-library-exploited-to-install-covert-miners\">used the Log4j vulnerability<\/a> to install hidden miners and other malware. The bug <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/log4j-vulnerability-sale-of-300-million-personal-data-records-and-other-cybersecurity-events\">is called<\/a> potentially the most serious discovered in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious actors exploited a vulnerability in the popular Log4j library to gain control of AMD EPYC-based servers to mine the Raptoreum cryptocurrency. Tom\u2019s Hardware reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55252,"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":[1154,1137],"class_list":["post-55251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-cryptocurrency-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55251","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=55251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55253,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55251\/revisions\/55253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}