Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-06-10 00:00:00
Affected organization: Microsoft
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Information
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Microsoft reveals that attackers recently hijacked powerful machine-learning clusters inside Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing service to mine cryptocurrency at the expense of the customers who rented them.