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On March 4, Iran used drones to strike an Amazon data center in Bahrain, citing its desire to “determine the role these centers play in supporting hostile military and intelligence operations.” The very next day, the United States and Israel retaliated by striking at least two data centers in Tehran, according to local NGO Holistic Resilience. Earlier, on March 1, the tech giant’s cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, was forced to report a temporary power outage at its Dubai data center due to hostile fire — and a resulting fire. In these few days, the world has finally realized what Ukraine has been saying for years - generally accepted security standards for data centers are hopelessly outdated.

Modern cybercrime operates as a full-fledged industry: viruses are sold on subscription, and stolen accounts are a regular commodity on darknet marketplaces. Dima Ashkinazi, founder of leak monitoring service Alerts Bar, explains what this ecosystem looks like from the inside. From info-stealers who quietly collect data to brokers who resell corporate access. In a conversation with dev.ua, Dima tells why even antiviruses and 2FA often don’t save, how the «golden window» works after a leak, and how the incident with the compromise of a top manager’s account, discovered by his team, helped Oracle close the risks in time and avoid potential losses.