Unknown hacker group, accesses Tesla Motors servers and integrates a miner to extract cryptocurrencies, but configuring it so that it does not saturate the processor and is easily detectable.

We really like cryptocurrencies on this website, that is no mystery, but one thing is that the user decides to mine cryptocurrencies or not and another is that third-party systems are used for mining cryptocurrencies. Unfortunately, this has become viral and it is no longer sought to steal data from companies, it simply seeks to enter the systems of companies and users and use the processor to extract cryptocurrencies, more profitable than industrial espionage or data hijacking. The last to suffer a cryptojacking attack has been Tesla Motors.

Elon Musk's company, you have suffered an access to your servers, logically, unauthorized by unknown attackers and the servers have been used to mine cryptocurrencies. The fault would be a console of the Amazon Web Services system that Tesla uses, which would not be properly protected and they have been sneaked through this point. The attackers have simply integrated a miner into the servers and have been clever, because they have configured it to consume a part of the system resources, preventing the processor from reaching 100% load, which would have set off alarms .

This has been discovered by the experts at RedLock. Specifically, the CEO and co-founder of RedLock, Varun Badwar, has explained that: 'We were not the first to arrive. Clearly, someone else had launched instances that were already mining cryptocurrencies in this particular Tesla environment. ' Furthermore, he explained that 'hackers will likely configure mining software to keep processor usage low to avoid detection'

This practice is spreading. There are download websites that mine cryptocurrencies with the visitor's processor, a Starbucks in Buenos Aires (Argentina), mined Monero with the terminals of those who connected to the WiFi and even the systems of an oil extraction company were infected, to get cryptocurrencies. This practice is spreading very quickly and is highly lucrative.