Comment on Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto

• hpca01@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not fun, I got hacked through an archived git repo, for when I was learning to use AWS, following tutorials and whatnot.

  Forgot about it for years, then out of nowhere got hit for 27k…needless to say I said good luck collecting that shit.

  They waived it all granted I logged in and deleted all resources that were running as well as removed all identities. Sure as hell I did that and saw a ton of identities out in the middle of nowhere. Fucking hackers ran up a shit ton of AWS sagemaker resources trying to probably hack some dude’s wallet.

  Every time I see a tutorial on how to deploy x in AWS, I get pissed. The newbies need to learn about administration before they start deploying shit on cloud infra.

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  • dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m always a bit paranoid about my google compute account. Opened it many years ago, ran a few instances for a few dollars for a few months, had enough, oh look there’s no easy “delete just my google compute account” button.

    Unhooked all the payment methods, shut everything off, turned out the lights, but it seems I can’t leave the building.

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    • hpca01@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Funny thing I had a paranoid freakout too before I got hacked on AWS, I had bought a visa gift card and that’s what I put in as a payment card on AWS. Of course they know where I live and could still screw me, but they would have to do it on their own dime.

      They make it really hard to leave or just use a specific service only. I use them for DNS, objectively it’s supposed to be cheap AF pay yearly, but now I have to pay $2 a month just to do all the auxiliary stuff to notify me that I got hacked.

      I’m buying a server rack soon and just got a full symmetric fiber line put in so I can do my own hosting.

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      • dgriffith@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Everything is so intertwined, and that’s the way they like it. Do I trust some random support bot/person in Google to unhook and delete my compute account from my google identity and not accidentally trash the rest of my 15 year identity with Google/Gmail? Hell no. So my compute account still sits there idle.

        I guess it bolsters their metrics, that’s nice for them I suppose.

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  • SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These services should have default billing alerts and limits you have to actively change.

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  • Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I especially hate that this culture now made its way into the corporate world too. It’s now normal and expected that a developer will just have to follow one of the AWS tutorials to get the thing going and leave it like that.

    Nobody thinks about how they’re going to compose their resources anymore, all the AWS “experts” just spit out their AWS training verbatim without any thoughts of their own.

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