Leaked AWS Administrator Key Fuels Costly LLMjacking Through Bedrock and Marketplace
A leaked AWS IAM key with administrator privileges allowed an attacker to create a new identity, activate premium AI models and bill inference usage to the victim. The...
28,000 Public .git Folders Left AWS Keys, Stripe Tokens, and HR Files Wide Open, Researchers Find
A large-scale internet scan uncovered 28,000 publicly accessible .git directories exposing hundreds of live cloud and payment credentials, along with sensitive employee records — a reminder that scrubbing...
AWS Sets a Multi-Year Countdown to Kill Off Email-Based Certificate Validation
Amazon is phasing out email validation for public TLS certificates issued through AWS Certificate Manager, with new-Region restrictions starting in 2027 and a full industry-wide browser distrust deadline...
AWS AiTM Phishing Kit Bypasses MFA to Hijack Cloud Console Sessions in Real Time
A real-time adversary-in-the-middle phishing kit has been targeting AWS engineers, stealing credentials and MFA codes simultaneously to hijack cloud sessions before they expire. Standard MFA provides zero protection...
Shai-Hulud Malware Expands to npm Ecosystem, Stealing Cloud and CI/CD Credentials From Developers
A credential-stealing malware campaign known as Shai-Hulud has expanded to target developers using the Leo/RStreams npm package ecosystem, harvesting GitHub tokens, cloud access keys, CI/CD secrets, and SSH...
HazyBeacon APT Campaign Weaponizes AWS Lambda to Hide Command-and-Control Traffic
Qualys researchers have exposed HazyBeacon, a stealthy APT campaign targeting Southeast Asian governments that uses AWS Lambda Function URLs as covert command-and-control relays. By routing malicious traffic through...
TeamPCP Poisons Microsoft’s Official Python DurableTask SDK — Multi-Cloud Credential Worm Hits PyPI
The TeamPCP threat group has compromised three consecutive versions of Microsoft's official Python DurableTask SDK on PyPI, injecting a worm-like payload that steals multi-cloud credentials from AWS, Azure,...
Amazon S3 buckets targeted by new ransomware attacks
A new wave of ransomware attacks has emerged, targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) by exploiting its Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C). This tactic allows threat actors...