Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Clusters Cryptojacked to Mine Monero
Microsoft (NASDAQ:) announced on June 10 that it had discovered a number of cryptojacking attacks on powerful machine-learning clusters on its Azure cloud computing network.
In a blog-post, the company said that some customers had misconfigured nodes, allowing attackers to hijack them to mine the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero (XMR).
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