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A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator's own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys
CISA reveals how it responded after sensitive AWS GovCloud credentials and internal data were exposed in a public GitHub repository
Researchers uncovered a 230-node cloud-based email relay network after the actor PCPJack accidentally exposed tools, logs, and C2 files online A threat actor tracked as PCPJack compromised 230 cloud servers across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and turned them into a covert email relay network. Hunt.io researchers discovered the operation because PCPJack […]
A third-party UK visa site exposed passports and selfies on a public AWS server. It’s not official GOV.UK and affected at least 100,000 documents. UK Visa Portal is not run by the British government. It’s a third-party service, apparently operated by a UAE-registered company called Active Leadgen LLC, that charges fees to help people apply […]
Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history.
An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses Exclusive ELECQ, maker of smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers, is warning customers that their personal details may have been stolen in a ransomware attack that encrypted and copied user data from its cloud systems.…
Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riot Cybercriminals armed with off-the-shelf generative AI tools compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, according to a new incident report from AWS.…
The AI-assisted attack, which started with exposed credentials from public S3 buckets, rapidly achieved administrative privilges.
A critical misconfiguration in Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodeBuild could have allowed complete takeover of the cloud service provider's own GitHub repositories, including its AWS JavaScript SDK, putting every AWS environment at risk
A critical AWS CodeBuild misconfiguration has exposed core repositories to potential attack
Password Manager Must Pay 1.2M PoundsThe British data regulator imposed a fine of 1.2 million pounds against password manager LastPass over a 2022 data breach that exposed the data of millions of its customers. Unidentified hackers stole backup data from LastPass's Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.
Researcher: Internal Data Belonging to World’s Largest Lender Exposed on AWSNavy Federal, the world’s largest credit union, left hundreds of gigabytes of internal backup files exposed on Amazon’s cloud storage service, says cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler. Exposed data included email addresses, hashed passwords and what appeared to be internal system data.
TenableOne now pulls in data from AWS, Microsoft, and competitors to provide a holistic security view of the organization's attack surface.
Think AWS has security covered? Think again. Discover real-world examples of what it doesn’t secure and how to protect your environment Advertorial AWS customers might assume that security is taken care of for them - however, this is a dangerous misconception.…
You can find out if your GitHub codebase is leaking keys ... but so can miscreants A free automated tool that lets anyone scan public GitHub repositories for exposed AWS credentials has been released.…
Threat Actor 'Codefinger' Targets Cloud EnvironmentsA ransomware group is targeting Amazon S3 buckets, exploiting the data stored there using AWS’s server-side encryption with customer keys and demanding a ransom in exchange for the encryption key needed to unlock the data. The group uses compromised or publicly exposed AWS account credentials.
Remember Bucket Monopoly? Yeah, it gets worse Amazon Web Services has fixed a flaw in its open source Cloud Development Kit that, under the right conditions, could allow an attacker to hijack a user's account completely.…
If you needed yet another reminder of what happens when security basics go awry Updated It's a good news day for organizations that don't leave their AWS environment files publicly exposed because infosec experts say those that do may be caught up in an extensive and sophisticated extortion campaign.…
A bug exposed users of an AWS workflow management service to cookie tossing, but behind the scenes lies an even deeper issue that runs across all of the top cloud services.