And I can suggest checking cron jobs both on root and postgres, killing those processes and changing root postgres passwords.
Ahmet
On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 at 09:19, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Antonis Christodoulou <christan305@xxxxxxxxxxx> <VI1P193MB051005C8BE974502A0D4A315E1F79@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> This is a machine in the cloud, I can’t disconnect it.
In that case, you need to be taking nonzero security precautions.
> And yes the ps looks like this precisely when I do a fresh restart. I kill all postgres processes and restart:
> Then this is the output of me ps:
That looks fine ... but this doesn't:
>>> postgres 3342383 1 0 2022 ? 00:00:00 FzXlkULu
>>> postgres 3344758 1 99 2022 ? 3-14:39:11 OElid7Dp
>>> postgres 3419125 1 18 13:57 ? 01:17:03 tracepath
Somebody is hacking into your system and commandeering it to run
something resource-intensive, possibly a bitcoin miner. Whatever
it is, it's trying to obscure its process name which is hardly
a sign of good intentions.
I'd counsel taking a hard look at your pg_hba.conf to be sure
it's not allowing non-credentialed logins from anywhere. And
for pete's sake don't use a guessable password.
regards, tom lane
