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Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by orbifold on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:39PM (#23315540)
At least according to this incident report https://csirt.egi.eu/academic-data-centers-abused-for-crypto..., one of the two attacks had "unknown purpose". In particular it was not tied to crypto mining.
Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by zaxu on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:45PM (#23315605)
From the site you linked, the one with "unknown" motive has exclusively attacked Chinese academic victims. It would be extremely bizarre to suggest that the Chinese government is behind this.
Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by orbifold on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:54PM (#23315697)
The second one is the attack that spread all the way to a basement HPC cluster in the Physics Institute at LMU Munich, the IP addresses listed are indicators to look for that your system might be compromised, not the victims of the attack.
Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by scarmig on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:53PM (#23318603)
It's worth pointing out that countries regularly hack and attack their own citizens. In some ways, it's more important to know what they're doing than what your opponents' are.
Re:The FBI investigating hacking of Covid research by “PRC-a... by zaxu on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:50PM (#23315657)
Ah, I misread the table. This is very suggestive, then.