HP servers Hacked to mine Raptoreum, over $ 100,000 in profit

It appears that between December 9 and 17, an HP data center was mining Raptoreum. The data center outperformed all mining systems combined at the time. In an investigation it was discovered that HP servers were under the control of hackers in those days, and that they would have made approximately $ 110,000.

More than $ 100,000 in profit

For now it is not known which company was using these servers, and it is likely that it is one of the hundred largest in the world of computing that have reported themselves as victims of the Log4J vulnerability this month, where it claimed victims such as Amazon, IBM and Microsoft.

The Log4J vulnerability was discovered in early December, which allows remote execution of arbitrary code, even on systems running as localhost with no external connections.

As soon as the patch appeared, the HP servers disappeared from the mining system, clearly they were being used without consent.

Raptoreum is surprisingly cost-effective on expensive AMD Epyc server CPUs due to its 256MB cache on models with 32 or more cores.

Of the 3.4 million Raptoreum tokens in the wallet, hackers managed to move around 1.5 million of them, collecting them through the CoinEx exchange. The remainder, 1.7 million tokens, were left idle, perhaps awaiting positive price action before cashing in any potential gains. Interestingly, Raptoreum’s valuation was unaffected by the sudden action in the portfolios.

Source: EinNews