Friday , November 15 2024

TeamTNT Using NVIDIA Drivers to Mine Cryptocurrency

Kubernetes deployments have been targeted by attackers as a means to compromise the cloud environment to control workloads and harness the power of the cloud to conduct unauthorized tasks. Earlier research has highlighted how the TeamTNT threat group conducts attacks against large-scale Kubernetes deployments.

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2023 Threat Report: Social Engineering and Web Attacks waves

TeamTNT is known for attacking insecure and vulnerable Kubernetes deployments in order to further enumerate the cloud infrastructure.to infiltrate into organizations’ dedicated environments and transform them into attack launchpads. In this article we present a new module introduced by TeamTNT to utilize NVIDIA’s GPU capabilities by installing associated drivers on compromised pods running in cluster nodes to conduct advanced mining operations. For clarity, no security vulnerability in NVIDIA’s driver is exploited by TeamTNT.

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Aditya K Sood
Advanced Threat Research Center of Excellence, Office of the CTO, F5

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