New Malware Compromises Supercomputer Clusters in US, Germany, UK

A number of technical reports were shared yesterday (Friday 15th May 2020):

1. A report by the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) security team reported on two distinct attacks (“Incident One” and “Incident Two” ) that their members observed against super-computers.

2. Security researcher Tillmann Werner shared a Yara rule to detect a loader and log cleaner for attacks against supercomputers.

3. Security researcher Markus Neis shared hashes for the loaders and log cleaners

Perhaps they can run simulations on multi-protocol security layers and not put an IP address on anything of value and see what happens.

I hope the media reports this as something similar to their baby monitor or webcam being compromised (or attempted to). This is not user error.