Comment by eddythompson80
6 days ago
Who else would spend the time and effort to figure out you leaked your stipe key to your front end? Sure people have bots to do that, but it’s kinda unbelievable someone would run such a bot on their vibe coded website.
I have a strictly hobby web app that I work on. 6-7 years ago I inadvertently pushed AWS email service credentials to GitHub.
Half an hour after the push I got an email and text from GitHub that I had exposed credentials. I quickly logged in to my AWS to turn off the service, to see that AWS had suspended that service because the bounce rate on the 80000 emails sent in that 15 minute period was too high. It was crazy just how fast it was exploited.
>> It was crazy just how fast it was exploited.
People underestimate the speed, but also the number of pivots that advanced attackers will make. Sure, these kinds of problems are easy to exploit, but with major organizations that employ reasonable defenses, the attackers will pivot through 50+ exploits/machines/layers to get to the target(s). This can take place over weeks or months.
It still doesn't make sense that advanced attackers would go to those lengths in order to... refund the customers.
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Here's an amusing thing to try on anything with SSH exposed. These log files go back a month.
Interestingly, I have a server that only has IPv6 SSH open to the outside world, and it has exactly zero that aren't me fat-fingering a password. It does have an externally visible hostname, which says to me that the bots aren't looking at hostnames for SSH, just IP(v4) addresses.
Meanwhile on my publicly available Oracle VPS...
I'm wondering what 'seekcy' is. Possibly a Chinese security product?
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> 118 pi
I wonder why this features so low in the list. The default user:pass combo for Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS is pi:raspberry
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=151745
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I'm surprised there is no root there? In my experience this is by far the most common.
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> It was crazy just how fast it was exploited.
The internet is a wild place in any aspect of it. You should try spinning up a random virtual private server on any cloud provider, plug in a public IP address,and listen to traffic. Sometimes it takes seconds to get your first traffic from vulnerability scanners.
This 100%. I'm in a space with developers and customers deploying web servers for the first time. This traffic freaks them out.
Basically a simple server listening on a port will experience hundreds of random script-probing attacks per day. And if any of them show the slightest hint of succeeding then that escalates quickly to thousands per minute.
You don't need a DNS entry to "expose" the IP address (there are only 4 billion). Moving to another port reduces, but doesn't eliminate the traffic.
Telling people this freaks them out. But as long as the server is done well its just noise.
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Years ago back in 2001, I had a /29 giving my 5 real IP addresses from my ISP.
Back then, I mostly only ran Linux, but for some reason, I needed to run something on a Windows machine, so started installing Windows 98 SE onto a machine, and set it up with a public IP address without even thinking about it. It crashed before it'd even finished installing [0], and investigation showed that it'd been whacked by an automated RCE exploit scanner.
I immediately decided it was never worth the risk of putting a Windows machine on a public IP, and set up a NAT even though I had 3 spare public IPs.
[0] There was already a published update to protect against this exploit, but I was scanned and hacked between the base install exposing the bug and the automatic update patching it.
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Github repositories have statistics about access. Anyone can test this.
Create a new Github repo, within minutes there's someone (or something) poking around it.
Similarly if you post any credentials, they'll either get nabbed and used or a friendly scanner service will notify you about it and will tell you exactly where the credential is if you make an account in their service.
I think common people also underestimate how fast a computer really is nowadays, because they only know bloated MS Windows machines.
Why is it unbelievable? There is an entire industry of people trying to find vulnerable niche applications like this. There are bots which crawl the web, not to make an index, but just to find vulnerabilities. Nobody necessarily even had to 'point' anything at this at all, it just shows up on their dashboard one day and they get to dig in.
I would not be surprised if Shodan.io ends up with queries for easily identifiable markers of vibe-coded software.
> There are bots which crawl the web, not to make an index, but just to find vulnerabilities.
You can download a few of them out of GitHub and run them immediately, too.
I was being facetious. Yes, there are millions of bots that are constantly searching every website for leaked keys, passwords, database credentials, crypto wallets, firebase endpoints, s3 buckets, email addresses, phone numbers, etc. the list is bottomless
Yep. We once had left a socks proxy unprotected on a public IP, no cert, just a random IP and a fixed port. At one day the service stopped working. When looking into it, the network was overloaded with random IPs from all over the world surfing on the free proxy.
> Who else would spend the time and effort to figure out you leaked your stipe key to your front end?
In high school in the early 2000’s, I ran a small Apache server from my home that was basically Geocities but even less discoverable - I used it to learn PHP, SQL, and frontend. One day my log started filling rapidly as someone effectively ddos’d my home server. If they’d bothered to actually poke, they likely would’ve been able to exploit it relatively quickly even without all of today’s tools. I imagine the process of discovery and exploitation is magnitudes more impressive and performant today.
> Who else would spend the time and effort to figure out you leaked your stipe key to your front end? Sure people have bots to do that, but it’s kinda unbelievable someone would run such a bot on their vibe coded website.
I could offer some anecdata as a counterargument but I'm a bit ashamed about how it happened so I'll just say, you friend was lucky it only ended at that.
I've seen it happen - a key was leaked in a stacktrace somewhere and it took a scraper a couple of days to find it. Stripe helpfully prefixes their keys with sk_prod_ so you can completely automate something to iterate over every IPv4 address and see if something in the output matches.
You don't scan just a single website, you code up the bot once and then scan every site you can find.
Your friends' service was just the proverbial paper car in a thunderstorm: the thunderstorm doesn't care about the paper car but destroys it just the same.
My website has a "public" directory for things I wanted to be publicly accessible, but there's an index.html there so you can't trivially discover what files are there.
I was mirroring this to another machine, and I'd foolishly already configured haproxy to serve from either machine. In the 10 minutes (guesstimate) between starting to populate the directory and closing off access, I had one bot scrape every single file in there. What was worse was that it'd cached the index, and continued scraping these files from the other backend too, so I had to shut off access to that directory on the live server as well as the backup.
Whilst technically, all of these files were "public" because I wanted to share them, some of them weren't publicly linked to (things like my CV etc) which I'd rather hadn't been scraped by some random bot (that of course, didn't identify itself or respect robots.txt).
Nah, that's table stakes for a public facing website.
The thing about bots is that it costs almost nothing to run them against millions of sites every day. It's got nothing with "but what are the odds?!", at large enough scale, unlikely things happen all the time.
Shame on this dude.
Oh you sweet summer child.