Danger zone! Brit research supercomputer ARCHER hit with SSH-nixing cyber attack

Danger zone! Brit research supercomputer ARCHER hit with SSH-nixing cyber attack

One of Britain's most powerful academic supercomputers has fallen victim to a "security exploitation" of its login nodes, forcing the rewriting of all user passwords and SSH keys.


The incident, which is understood to be under investigation by GCHQ offshoot the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), rendered the ARCHER high-performance computing (HPC) network unavailable to its users on Tuesday.


Sysadmins warned ARCHER users that their SSH keys may have been compromised as a result of the apparent attack, advising them to "change passwords and SSH keys on any other systems which you share your ARCHER credentials with".


In a statement posted to the project's status page, ARCHER admins said the apparent attack had seen several academic high-performance computers disrupted across Europe in addition to ARCHER. They added that: "Jobs that are currently ..

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