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3 days agoCore Scientific latest to jump crypto-to-AI bandwagon
Core Scientific is converting a bitcoin mining operation into a 1.5 gigawatt AI datacenter campus in Texas.
Unlike the spate of package poisoning incidents over recent months, this one didn't inject traditional malware into the open source code. Instead, the miscreants created a self-replicating attack, infecting the packages with code to automatically generate and publish, thus earning cryptocurrency rewards on the backs of legitimate open source developers. The code also included tea.yaml files that linked these packages to attacker-controlled blockchain wallet addresses. Meanwhile, users were completely unaware that they were unwittingly padding the attackers' wallets.