At approximately 20:34 eastern (GMT -4) on May 2, recently published SaltStack vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-11651, CVE-2020-11652) were used to launch cryptocurrency miners on our SolusVM host nodes. The attack disrupted various services in order to allocate as much CPU as possible to the miners. SSH and QEMU processes were killed on some of our CentOS 6 KVM hosts, causing extended downtime in certain cases.