Google warns that crypto miners may be using compromised Cloud accounts

Some cryptocurrency miners are using compromised Google Cloud accounts, according to Google’s “Threat Horizons” report published on Wednesday.
“Malicious actors were observed performing cryptocurrency mining within compromised Cloud instances,” Google wrote in an executive summary of the report.
Google said that 86% of 50 recently compromised Google Cloud accounts were used to perform cryptocurrency mining, and that the malicious actors were able to access Google Cloud accounts due to weak security practices by customers.