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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

There’s a temptation to dismiss it as a mere nuisance; companies deep into ‘digital transformation,’ in particular, might be lulled into this sort of apathy. However, closer inspection reveals how cryptojacking morphed out of the ransomware plague of 2015 and 2016. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU.

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Knock-Knock Docker!! Will you let me in? Open API Abuse in Docker Containers

Security Affairs

Today, every organization in the industry is keen to embrace this Digital Transformation journey to leverage the benefits provided by DevOps by adopting it. A few of the hosts are running with multiple mining containers; moreover, the containers are dynamic in nature hence the data varies a bit everytime we scan the open APIs.

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