{"id":107224,"date":"2020-05-17T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/hacking-bitcoin-called-super-computers-to-crypto-mining"},"modified":"2020-05-17T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:03:40","slug":"hacking-bitcoin-called-super-computers-to-crypto-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/hacking-bitcoin-called-super-computers-to-crypto-mining","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHacking Bitcoin\u201d Called Super Computers to Crypto Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacking-bitcoin-called-super-computers-to-crypto-mining2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Several supercomputers in Europe have been hacked in the past few days. Attackers are thought to use these supercomputers for mining Monero (XMR).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A massive attack was carried out on some supercomputers based in Germany, the UK and Switzerland. These events first surfaced with the announcement of the University of Edinburgh on Monday. University of Edinburgh; He explained that the supercomputer known as ARCHER has detected a \u201cvulnerability in the input nodes\u201d and the system has been disabled. Authorities had to reset their SSH password to prevent the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks were not limited to this. An organization called bwHPC in Germany also made a statement on Monday, and five different supercomputers in Germany; It announced that it was closed due to \u201cvulnerabilities\u201d similar to those in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several supercomputers in Europe have been hacked in the past few days. Attackers are thought to use these supercomputers for mining Monero (XMR). A massive attack was carried out on some supercomputers based in Germany, the UK and Switzerland. These events first surfaced with the announcement of the University of Edinburgh on Monday. University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}