Posts tagged: #crypto-mining
A fictional AWS incident investigated from its logs: leaked key, recon, backdoor admin, GuardDuty deleted, 320 S3 objects taken, GPU mining in Singapore.
Reading VPC Flow Logs in an investigation: key fields, egress volume per destination, mining-pool ports, what flow logs never record and the data traps.
GPU instances, a bill spike, a region nobody uses: confirm crypto-mining on AWS from CloudTrail and flow logs, contain it, and find how they got in.