A cybersecurity firm has unearthed a monero mining script embedded in a public instance of an Amazon Web Service (AWS) virtual machine. Now the firm is raising the question: How many other community ...

Researchers at Mitiga revealed in a blog post Friday an AWS AMI for a Windows 2008 virtual server hosted by an unverified vendor is infected with a Monero mining script. The malware would have ...

Many organizations use a mixture of both persistent and temporary Amazon EC2 virtual machine instances. The persistent instances may run mission-critical workloads and are intended for long term use, ...