Hacker Group Makes $3 Million by Installing Monero Miners on Jenkins Servers | #CryptoJacking #CryptoCurrency #CryptoMining | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

A hacker group has made over $3 million by breaking into Jenkins servers and installing malware that mines the Monero cryptocurrency.

Hackers are targeting Jenkins, a continuous integration/deployment web application built in Java that allows dev teams to run automated tests and execute various operations based on test results, including deploying new code to production servers. Because of this, Jenkins servers are extremely popular with both freelance web developers, but also with large enterprises.

 

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