While Washington officials do not accuse the Russian government of direct involvement in such attacks, they say the country is harbouring hackers who should be arrested. In recent months, numerous US companies, including the computer group SolarWinds and the Colonial oil pipeline, have been the victims of high-profile ransomware attacks, which the FBI blames on hackers based in Russia. In 2016, the site dedicated to helping people hack email and online gaming accounts known as. The company has released a tool allowing its customers to find out whether their own computer systems have been compromised by the attack. Kaseya said it had 'immediately shut down' its servers after detecting the attack on Friday and warned its VSA customers to do the same, 'to prevent them from being compromised'. Kaseya said Sunday it believed the damage had been restricted to a 'very small number' of customers using its signature VSA software, which lets companies manage networks of computers and printers from a single point.īut cybersecurity firm Huntress Labs said that it was working with partners targeted in the attack, and that the software was manipulated 'to encrypt more than 1,000 companies'. However, miners are now hacking Google Cloud accounts for mining purposes. And Google Cloud customers can access it at a cost.

Cryptocurrency mining is a computationally intensive activity. So who are these people? Who is directing them? What are they after? And most important of all - how can they be stopped? Read more Attackers are exploiting poorly configured cloud accounts to mine crypto, Google warned users in a recent report. Australia is experiencing a significant rise in cyber attacks.

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