
Poor cloud security let hackers mine cryptocurrency on Tesla’s dime
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/20/poor-cloud-security-let-hackers-mine-cryptocurrency-on-teslas-dime/
The strange new breed of malicious cryptocurrency miners spares no one, it seems: Tesla is the latest to be struck by this trendy form of hackery. A poorly secured cloud computing setup let them waltz right in.
It’s only the latest example of several detected by cloud security outfit RedLock, which has tracked a series of Kubernetes admin consoles wide open to anyone looking. Not even password-protected.