If you are a big company and leave your servers unsupervised, hackers will eventually break in, because, well... that's what hackers do.
But some patterns seem to have changed in this area, at least when it comes to what hackers are after. Until recently, they were interested in data. But a new trend emerges, when hackers are hijacking corporate computers not for sensitive data, but for computing power, used, obviously, to mine Bitcoin.
According to a story published by Business Insider, two big companies, Aviva and Gemalto had a few Amazon instances hacked, and these computers were used by hackers for mining (still not clear how big the computers and how much Bitcoin they mined).
This comes less than a week after we learned about 2 officials from the Crimeean government which were fired because they were using government owned equipment to mine Bitcoin.
Apparently, data is not valuable anymore, or at least not as valuable as crypto-currencies.
And hackers usually have a hunch about what is worth breaking in for, you know...
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