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Important information regarding your Data Science Virtual Machine instance(s) Microsoft is writing to inform you of an incident which has impacted one or more of your Data Science Virtual Machine (VM) instances. Engineers detected crypto mining software in the software package for your Data Science VM instance that may have caused an increase in system resource utilization and subsequent increase in your Azure usage. We have determined that this affected a limited subset of Data Science VM instances installed since September 24th, 2018. Our investigation has determined that no customer data was compromised due to this crypto mining software. A list of your affected VM(s) is included at the bottom of this email. Azure recommends that customers delete their affected Data Science VM instances and redeploy a new instance from Azure Marketplace to mitigate this issue. If you experience any unexpected issues during the deletion and reinstallation of your VM instances, please contact [4]Azure Support. Microsoft sincerely apologizes for this incident and any inconvenience that this has caused for our customers. We will be proactively issuing credits for any increased usage on your affected VM(s) that is attributed to this incident. Credits will be applied to a future billing invoice.Ich saß heute in einer Keynote von Mikko Hypponen drin, der da diese Geschichte erzählte, dass die Leute total glücklich sind, wenn man ihnen erzählt, dass sie sich einen Krypto-Miner eingefangen haben. Wenn du mit "Wir haben Malware gefunden" eröffnest, dann rechnen die eher mit Kreditkarte geklaut, Dokumente verschlüsselt, etc. Dann ist es direkt eine Erleichterung, wenn das "nur" ein Kryptominer war.
Gut, in der Cloud zahlt man für Nutzung, und da kann so ein Kryptominer echt teuer werden.