alt Hacker NewsBunny used Gcore in Armenia. Gcore themselves got hacked, not Bunny. Bunny was just an affected downstream, in only one of their POPs.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/222315/gcore-compromised-v...
The title is heavily misleading.
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Do I need to post the Rickover responsibility copypasta again? Simply put service providers own their outsourcing decisions and those consequences. Getting popped by shitty hosting services is a risk of using those services.
Bunny is doing the right thing here and owning it.
> "Bunny used Gcore in Armenia."
I'm unsure, but I have to ask: isn't this company Russian-controlled (with Luxembourg and Cyprus shell-company fronts)? Their Wikipedia entry[0] features a controversy involving RT (Russia Today); and a number of their top employees (i.e. Vsevolod Vayner) seem to live in Russian cities; and Moscow was their 2nd cloud location, after Luxembourg[1].
I'm not sure if I've got this right (most of the primary sources are Russian websites that block me and also block Western internet archives; I'm gleaning some things from Google preview caches). But: is it possible the #1 "European sovereign CDN" has been acting as a white-label reseller for Moscow? Is it possible they willingly trusted all of their customers' TLS certificates to a contractor operating from Russia?
Someone kindly fact-check me.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gcore#Controversies
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260420215140/https://www.strea...
Being affected downstream means it's a security incident regardless? I don't understand why you think this is misleading, incomplete context in the title? Sure.
Last week, after spending 30 minutes placing one order in Uber Eats, I finally hit the last confirm and it told me the restaurant was no longer taking orders that night. I called the restaurant and they said they couldn't help: they only take orders over Uber Eats and they can't control UE's system.
Yes, they absolutely could help. They could take an order over the phone. They could choose a subcontractor who delivered good service to the restaurant's customers. The restaurant is 100% responsible.
If I used a subcontractor for a client, not in a million years would I tell the client, 'the subcontractor's failure isn't my problem; I can't control them'. I would look like a joke, entirely unreliable and clueless.
It's not really misleading. A lot of people here use Bunny and this is a relevant security incident. It's not a major failing but rather a "hey shit happened come make sure if it applies to you that you respond in kind".
NGL it's the exact wording I'd personally like to see from a product that had an infra provider have an incident just so that I can mentally tune in enough to figure out if I need to care.