A series of breakings of supercomputers for Mining Cryptocurrency

In several large computing clusters which are in the supercomputer centers United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Spain, are revealed traces of breakings of infrastructure and installation of malicious software for the hidden Mining Cryptocurrency Monero (XMR). Detailed analysis of incidents is not available yet, but according to preliminary data systems were compromised as a result of theft of registration data from systems of the researchers having access on start of tasks in a cluster. After receiving access to a cluster in one of cases the attacking operated vulnerability of CVE-2019-15666 in Linux kernel for...