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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 ...
Dark Reading

Attackers Use Stolen AWS Credentials in Cryptomining Campaign

Threat actors wielding stolen AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials leverage Amazon EC and EC2 infrastructure ...

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 ...
TechRepublic

EleKtra-Leak Campaign Uses AWS Cloud Keys Found on Public GitHub Repositories to Run Cryptomining Operation

EleKtra-Leak Campaign Uses AWS Cloud Keys Found on Public GitHub Repositories to Run Cryptomining Operation Your email has been sent In the active Elektra-Leak campaign, attackers hunt for Amazon IAM ...
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'Elektra-Leak' Attackers Harvest AWS Cloud Keys in GitHub Campaign

Attackers are actively harvesting exposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) identity and access management (IAM) credentials in public GitHub repositories to create AWS Elastic Compute (EC2) instances for ...
SiliconANGLE

AWS IAM credentials at risk: EleKtra-Leak operation revealed by Unit 42

A new report from Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 warns of a new active campaign targeting exposed Amazon Web Services Inc. identity and access management credentials within public GitHub ...