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Debugging Suspicious Plex Connections: A Deep Dive Into My Self-Hosted Infrastructure

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:30:00 +0000

Last week, Plex announced a security incident where their user database was compromised, forcing everyone to log out - including server connections. As someone who self-hosts a Plex instance that’s publicly reachable (no VPN in front), this immediately caught my attention. Beyond the Reddit threads, confusion and panic, it was a great opportunity to audit my infrastructure.

How I caught crypto miner on company servers

Wed, 29 Dec 2021 01:52:45 +0000

Long story short, one afternoon I was performing maintenance on a Virtual machine. My task was to check if there were any important processes running. This particular VM had an NVIDIA GPU initialized, and we wanted to transfer this GPU to another VM.

How I bypassed UAE's firewall with an iPad & AWS on vacation

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 23:32:27 +0000

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Last week I was on my vacation in Dubai (UAE). It was a great vacation. The weather was hot - usually around 35-38 °C. For me (who loves hot weather) it was great. I did enjoy those tropical nights at the hotel. I like to relax and in the evening by watching some movie or favorite show while drinking a cold drink. Since I run plex at home server but I don’t have plex open to the Internet I need a VPN. So if I want to watch movies outside my home network - I need to connect to a home VPN. I was so glad that the hotel had fast but unsecured WiFi. I thought that shouldn’t be a problem. I have my own tools for that! Well… It was. And it was much worse than I thought.

Cyber Security on blog.axell.dev

Debugging Suspicious Plex Connections: A Deep Dive Into My Self-Hosted Infrastructure

How I caught crypto miner on company servers

How I bypassed UAE's firewall with an iPad & AWS on vacation

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