AWS systems targeted by crypto mining scam using hijacked IAM credentials

Cybercriminals are targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS with cryptojackers, expert ...

Warning: Amazon Confirms 5-Year-Long Russian Cyberattack

The Amazon threat intelligence team has confirmed a prolonged Russian hack attack targeting AWS customers. Here’s what you ...
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Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign

Amazon reports a new AWS crypto mining campaign abusing IAM credentials, ECS, EC2, and termination protection for persistence ...
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What Is AWS EFS? Features, Use Cases, and Critical Best Practices

AWS EFS is a scalable file storage solution for use with Amazon EC2 instances. It's designed to be a simple, elastic, and scalable file system for Linux-based workloads, which can be used with both on ...
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whoAMI attacks give hackers code execution on Amazon EC2 instances

Security researchers discovered a name confusion attack that allows access to an Amazon Web Services account to anyone that publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name. Dubbed "whoAMI ...

Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts

Amazon's AWS GuardDuty security team is warning of an ongoing crypto-mining campaign that targets its Elastic Compute Cloud ...