Relying on cloud providers to stop billing you, or OSes to tell the truth, are terrible strategies.
🔥 Asynchronous Bankruptcy
GCP takes your money instantly but stops dangerously slow. A startup ate a $128k bill from a leaked Gemini API key. They hit the kill switch, but GCP's billing lag meant charges kept climbing. Google denied the refund, pushing them toward bankruptcy.
Attackers burn compute faster than metering tracks it. Budget alerts are useless—just delayed notifications of your own funeral. Enforce hard API quotas so the platform actually drops traffic. Read the billing nightmare here.
🥷 Blinded at Ring 0
Moved detection to eBPF? Congrats, modern LKM rootkits completely blind your sensors. Attackers hook the eBPF ring buffer to silently drop telemetry before Falco or Tracee even see it.
Standard software tracepoints are dead against Ring 0 evasion. You need hardware intervention. SPiCa v2.0 proves this, using Hardware NMIs (Non-Maskable Interrupts) and XOR masking to catch rootkits. Assume your eBPF sensors are flying blind and get hardware NMI engines if you want actual kernel ground truth.