Hackers Chronicle - Online Cyber Security News: Tesla

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Hackers have breached Tesla cloud servers used by the company's engineers and have installed malware that mines the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cryptocurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency</a>. The incident took place last year when hackers gained access to Tesla's Kubernetes server, an open-source application used by large companies to manage API and server infrastructure deployed on cloud hosting providers.<br />
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Cloud security firm RedLock —whose experts discovered the hacked server— said hackers found a "pod" inside the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Kubernetes" target="_blank">Kubernetes </a>console that stored login credentials for one of Tesla's AWS cloud infrastructure.<br />
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RedLock says the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/AWS" target="_blank">AWS </a>buckets appeared to have been storing sensitive data such as telemetry, but a Tesla Motors spokesperson told  in an email the data was from "internally-used engineering test cars only." While there's no evidence intruders stole any data, they did install a mining application that utilized the vast computational resources of Tesla's AWS servers to mine the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Monero" target="_blank">Monero cryptocurrency</a>.<br />
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A Tesla spokesperson told that the company received a notification about the incident and secured the server immediately. RedLock said today the incident took place because Tesla engineers forgot to secure the Kubernetes console with an access password.<br />
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"We maintain a bug bounty program to encourage this type of research, and we addressed this vulnerability within hours of learning about it," Tesla said. "The impact seems to be limited to internally-used engineering test cars only, and our initial investigation found no indication that customer privacy or vehicle safety or security was compromised in any way.”<br />
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It is very clear that these hackers knew what they were doing, as they set up a private mining pool to use for their illegal mining operations only, hid the mining pool behind CloudFlare, configured the mining software to listen for commands on a non-standard port, and throttled the mining software to use only a small portion of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Tesla" target="_blank">Tesla's</a> AWS CPU resources. All of these configuration changes were made to avoid detection. Because they used a custom mining pool, it is unclear how much money this hacker group made.</div>

Hackers have breached Tesla cloud servers used by the company's engineers and have installed malware that mines the cryptocurrency ....