If you’re using Amazon Web Services and your S3 storage bucket can be reached from the open web, you’d do well not to pick a generic name for that space. Avoid “example,” skip “change_me,” don’t even ...

Attackers access storage buckets with exposed AWS keys The files are then encrypted and scheduled for deletion after a week ...

The Amazon Web Services Cloud Development Kit (CDK), a popular open source tool, allows cyber teams to conveniently build software-defined cloud infrastructure with widely used programming languages, ...

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 ...

With the sheer amount of data and users leveraging AWS, it’s easy for misconfigurations to slip through the cracks. One commonly overlooked area is the naming of S3 buckets. AWS S3 bucket names are ...

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 ...

Abandoned AWS S3 buckets could be reused to hijack the global software supply chain in an attack that would make Russia's ...

Cloud misconfigurations expose organizations to significant risk, according to a new analysis of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets conducted by Lightspin, a cloud security ...

Attackers can gain access to AWS accounts or sensitive data by creating in advance S3 storage buckets with predictable names that will be automatically used by various services and tools. Researchers ...

Well that was not the turn I expected this story to take, based on the title. Nice to see it wasn't necessarily an AWS problem in this instance. Also I definitely want a follow-up on what FOSS project ...