Posted on 12/05/2021 5:50:10 PM PST by blueplum
A pair of Iranian hackers have been charged with breaking into a Missouri tech firm’s cloud-computing account and running up a $760,000 bill while mining cryptocurrency.
Prosecutors say the two men, who live and operate in Iran, managed to access the company’s Microsoft Azure cloud-computing account and install several new servers and programs to mine a cryptocurrency called Monero — a process known as cryptojacking...
..The company was unaware of the intrusion until it received a bill from Microsoft for $760,00 for the use of the additional server capacity, prosecutors said....
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Hmmm, they seem to be implying that security is important.
Are they being charged as adults or miners?
yeah, seriously some bad AZURE management.
I owned a few thousand instances which we got billed up the a$$ for even though I had more than enough physical hardware to do so cheaper.
Upper management knew “Cloud was the Future” and while I admint they were right in their context I decided not to be a part of it.
Monitor your elasticity.
Who is it that will be going to Iran to serve the arrest warrants?
“Who is it that will be going to Iran to serve the arrest warrants?”
Explain why anyone should even consider going to another foreign country to do that?
Oh wait, I forgot “Firewalls are BAD”
sorry
Most surprising to me is that there is a “Missouri tech firm”.
Just going by the link that two Iranians that live in Iran were charged.
Perhaps the charges just go on their perminant record.
and perhaps an under the table mo - sad deal too
“Ba-dum, bum!”
You funny guy, you!
Will Microsoft forgive the charges?
Good IT security ain’t cheap
Cheap IT security ain’t good
Prosecutors say the two men, who live and operate in Iran, managed to access the company’s Microsoft Azure cloud-computing account and install several new servers and programs to mine a cryptocurrency called Monero — a process known as cryptojacking...
LOL!
Clearly, the Missoura company took it up the azure!
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