A picture got my PostgreSQL database to start mining Monero

If we can subvert computers running databases (think healthcare, insurance companies, the IRS, etc) then isn’t it time to shut down the internet? People can’t have nice things. I think this is proof that we are in hell. There is a god and she is watching from the other side.

Well, I take it back. Keep the infrastructure so that the ISPs and broadcasters can keep taking our money but make it like tv used to be - one way only - peasants like us can only receive.

Re: A picture got my PostgreSQL database to start mining Monero

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Post by emartinelli » Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 12:49 PM UTC

teddyh wrote: post #3

andrewshadura wrote: post #2

Postgres, not Postgre.

PostgreSQL, not Postgres.

FWIW: "The name Postgres is an accepted alias for the PostgreSQL project. However it is an alias or nickname and is not the official name of the project."

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProjectName

Re: A picture got my PostgreSQL database to start mining Monero

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Post by maffydub » Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 12:49 PM UTC

jacob019 wrote: post #6

It's amazing that in 2018 people leave databases publicly exposed.

I think this was a honeypot, so you want to expose it to make it an easy (or at least easier) target, don't you?

Re: A picture got my PostgreSQL database to start mining Monero

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Post by FLUX-YOU » Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 12:51 PM UTC

maffydub wrote: post #9

jacob019 wrote: post #6

It's amazing that in 2018 people leave databases publicly exposed.

I think this was a honeypot, so you want to expose it to make it an easy (or at least easier) target, don't you?

Correct, here is part 1 and 2:

https://www.imperva.com/blog/2018/02/database-attacks-sql-ob...

https://www.imperva.com/blog/2018/02/deep-dive-database-atta...