Hackers Turn Kubernetes Machine Learning to Crypto Mining in Azure Cloud -- Virtualization Review

When clouds get hacked, it's often the fault of user misconfigurations. Just ask Amazon Web Services (AWs) about that. Beginning a few years ago or so, the AWS cloud notoriously suffered a long spate of such attacks, most of which leveraged misconfigured S3 storage buckets as attack vectors. Recently, Microsoft's Azure cloud experienced a similar situation, this one concerning misconfigurations from lazy users of the Kubeflow machine learning platform used with Kubernetes, the wildly popular container orchestration system. Hackers managed to exploit these misconfigurations to launch cryptocurrency mining campaigns leveraging powerful machine learning Kubernetes nodes, Microsoft announced earlier this month.