A new ransomware campaign encrypts Amazon S3 buckets using AWS's Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) known only to the threat actor, demanding ransoms to receive the decryption ...

At the world's largest security event, Black Hat USA 2024, a research team from Aqua Security announced that six AWS services had critical vulnerabilities that could lead to account hijacking, remote ...

Attackers access storage buckets with exposed AWS keys The files are then encrypted and scheduled for deletion after a week Halycon says it observed at least two victims being attacked this way ...

Attackers re-register abandoned AWS S3 buckets filled with malicious files that are executed by applications looking for these buckets. Code references to nonexistent cloud assets continue to pose ...

Attackers are moving beyond on-prem systems and now using AWS’s own encryption and key management features to lock organizations out of their cloud data. Ransomware operators are shifting their focus ...

As a proof of concept for a document indexing system he was building for a client, Pocwierz created a single S3 bucket in the AWS ' eu-west-1 ' region and uploaded several files for testing. After ...