According to Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturing company, they have become a fallen victim of cryptocurrency mining due to crypto mining malware attack.
Cybersecurity firm named RedLock stated on Tuesday that hackers have intruded in the system and has exploited an unprotected Kubernetes console, which the company uses to access and handle siphon computer processing attribute from cloud environment to perform cryptocurrency mining. The team state they have discovered as well as reported this weakness to the company several months before.
The spokesperson of the company told Gizmodo that customer information is highly secure and it is not affected by this incident. He further adds that the company has maintained the bug bounty program to encourage the security moreover answer the security threat within hours of recognizing it.
The spokesperson further explains that although the impact seems limited to only internally used engineering test cars in our initial investigation, we found no indication of the vehicle safety, security or customer privacy compromised at any single edge.
Unlike the other previous crypto mining malware, hackers are now targeting Tesla for not utilizing the public cryptocurrency mining pool. Instead, Tesla has installed mining pool software and secured it behind the Cloudflare, which hides the IP address of the mining pool server, this further makes detection of mining far complicated than it is… Therefore to conceal the action the hacker ensure that their CPU usage remains low during their hack.
RedLock CTO Mr. Gaurav Kumar said that the public cloud environments are entirely helpless in front of mining hacking attack, this might be the reason why sudden rise has been detected in the cycles of cryptocurrency values.
The public cloud environment of the public cloud is an ideal target due to the absence of cloud thread in the defense program, he further added in the conversation with Gizmodo. Besides, in past few months, we have revealed numerous cryptocurrency incidents including the one which has affected Tesla.
