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high advisory

AWS Potential Cryptomining via ECS Task Definition Deployment

Adversaries, after compromising AWS credentials, deploy cryptomining operations on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate by registering task definitions with public high-CPU container images and then launching them, leading to unauthorized resource consumption and increased cloud costs.

Amazon ECS +1 cloud aws cryptomining resource-hijacking ecs fargate
1t 5i
high advisory

You do surprise me.exe: Unexpected Crypto-Miner in Hola Browser

Sophos X-Ops discovered that Hola Browser version 1.251.91.0 was distributed with an undeclared crypto-mining executable, me.exe, due to a supply chain compromise, leading to resource hijacking on affected Windows systems.

Hola Browser supply-chain-compromise cryptomining pua windows executable
3r 5t 4i
medium advisory

Unusual EC2 Instance Creation with Unseen Instance Type

An attacker may create new EC2 instances with previously unseen instance types, indicating potential unauthorized or suspicious activity such as cryptomining or data exfiltration.

EC2 cloud anomaly cryptomining
2r 1t