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Sysdig Threat Report Reveals Victims Lose $50 for every $1 Cryptojackers Gain

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According to a new report from Sysdig, the unified container and cloud security leader, it costs $430,000 in cloud bills for an attacker to generate $8,100 in cryptocurrency revenue. The report confirms that cryptojacking remains the primary motivation for opportunistic attackers, exploiting vulnerabilities and weak system configurations. Using worldwide honeynets, the Sysdig Threat Research Team (Sysdig TRT) took an extensive look at TeamTNT and geopolitical activities over the past nine months. Sysdig was able to draw conclusions on TeamTNT, the explosion of malicious payloads in Docker Hub, and the rise in DDos attacks after the Russian/Ukraine war began.

The rapid shift to containers and cloud has driven an increase in opportunities for attackers to steal data, take advantage of assets, and gain illicit network access. It’s clear that container images have become a real attack vector, rather than a theoretical risk.

 

 

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“Security teams can no longer delude themselves with the idea that ‘containers are too new or too ephemeral for threat actors to bother,’ said Stefano Chierici, Senior Security Researcher at Sysdig and Report Co-Author. “Attackers are in the cloud, and they are taking real money. The high prevalence of cryptojacking activity is attributable to the low risk and high reward for the perpetrators.”

“The Ukrainian government globally crowdsourced their cyberwar efforts. This was unprecedented, but it shows that digital transformation has extended well beyond classic IT use cases,” said Michael Clark, Director of Threat Research and Report Co-Author. “Willing and unwilling participants alike contributed their infrastructure to the DDoS disruptions.”

 

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