As friends and collaborators for over a decade, we've been working on various startup ideas in dev tools and infrastructure. In 2017, while building an ML ops toolkit on Kubernetes, we got hacked. During a pilot with a fintech customer, our cluster became victim to a crypto-jacking attack.
As it turned out, a dependency in our container base image contained malware (a Monero miner) which triggered inside the customer's environment. Needless to say, we lost the customer and racked up a massive cloud bill as a tiny startup. This first-hand experience introduced us to one of the biggest challenges in software security today.
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