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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by mdoms on Sunday July 26, 2020 @06:20PM (#23960622)
Atlassian is not on Google Cloud, they are an AWS shop. I suspect this is an unrelated personal project.
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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by bigiain on Sunday July 26, 2020 @08:58PM (#23961384)
How much would you bet against that guy having fairly highly privileged AWS IAM access in Atlassian's account?
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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by mdoms on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:39AM (#23962721)
I worked at Atlassian and have a high degree of trust in their production accounts.
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Re:New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases by mbo on Monday July 27, 2020 @12:55AM (#23962334)
Atlassian's IAM privileges were pretty damn strict from what I remember when working there.
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