Someone Turned My VPS Into a Crypto Miner (And How I Fixed It)

Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It started with a slow app

I was just chilling, working on something else, when a friend messaged me:

“Hey, your app is super slow. Like, really slow. Is something wrong?”

I didn’t think much of it at first. Maybe a database query was acting up. Maybe there was a memory leak. Normal stuff.

Then I checked my VPS dashboard.

CPU usage: 95%.

For the past few days.

That’s not normal. My little 2GB droplet usually sits at 5-10% CPU running a few Node.js apps and some databases. 95% means something is working really hard.

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Someone Turned My VPS Into a Crypto Miner (And How I Fixed It)

It started with a slow app