Google Cloud’s Security Command Center Team has developed software that protects its users against hackers who steal GPU power to mine cryptocurrencies.
In a statement published on the Google Cloud official site, he said that he will launch the Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD) version in the Security Command Center (SCC) area. A quick way to scan compute engines, VMTD uses a virtual appliance. malicious crypto money mining software to be able to perceive was designed for.
In November of last year, about Google Cloud 50 hacks of the event With 86% mining cryptocurrencies was stated to be related. Google said at the time that hackers could try to steal GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies.
In addition to the protection of VMTD against cryptocurrency mining, the development team data theft and to ransomware announced that it will protect against
Ransomware attacks started in 2021 and the year 2021 April per month to its highest level It is said to have arrived. According to some experts, with the rise of the cryptocurrency market, attacks increase or decrease at the same rate.
VMTD, in the coming months with Google Cloud integrated it will be.