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Technician Sentenced Over Secret Crypto Mining at Wind Farms

🔒 A technical manager at Dutch wind operator Nordex was sentenced to 120 hours of community service after installing three cryptocurrency mining rigs and two Helium network nodes on the company's internal network between August and November 2022. The rigs were plugged into a substation router and hotspots placed inside turbines at two sites while the firm was recovering from a Conti ransomware attack. He must pay €4,155.65 to Nordex and an equal sum to the state, highlighting the risks of privileged insider access.

Cryptominer targets exposed Docker APIs, installs backdoors

🔒 Akamai researchers reported a June–August 2025 variant that no longer drops a cryptominer but instead leverages exposed Docker APIs to gain persistent host access. The campaign launches lightweight containers that mount the host filesystem and fetch Base64-encoded scripts over Tor to install tools such as curl and tor. Once inside, the malware appends SSH keys, creates cron jobs, and attempts to modify firewall rules to deny others access to port 2375. Akamai also observed dormant logic to probe Telnet and Chrome remote debugging (9222), suggesting future botnet expansion.