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Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    oh look there’s no easy “delete just my google compute account” button.

    I've had conversations with Google employees about this problem. I know you're speaking about your situation with essentially a homelab, but for business customers its more complicated than it seems on the surface. Many customers aren't savvy enough to understand "just delete anything that is generating a bill" also means all of your data stored on Persistent Disk or in GCS.

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