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Reading a cryptominer from its strace

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Re: Reading a cryptominer from its strace

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Any idea how it got there in the first place?

Not entirely sure, but my best guess is that the previous DevOps engineer was running a PostgreSQL 14 instance exposed to the internet with the password set to postgres. There's even an old CVE describing a remote code execution path for that kind of setup. Unfortunately, the PostgreSQL logs had been deleted, so I was never able to confirm it.