Supercomputers in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Spain have been shut down to prevent further intrusion and for analyzing the nature of the attacks
Several supercomputers across Europe have been compromised in order to exploit the massive computational speed of the supercomputers for cryptocurrency mining. According to reports, supercomputers in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Spain have been shut down to prevent further intrusion and for analyzing the reasons behind the attacks.
Germany-based organisation bwHPC, which is responsible for coordinating research projects across supercomputers in the state of Baden-Württemberg, has said that five of its supercomputers have been shut down following similar security incidents.
The list published by bwHPC includes the University of Stuttgart’s High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) supercomputer dubbed Hawk, the bwUniCluster 2.
