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 ...
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AWS EKS vs. ECS vs. Fargate: Which offers the best managed Kubernetes?

To make Kubernetes work at scale, you need a container orchestration tool that automates the management, deployment and scaling of your clusters. ECS is a scalable container orchestration platform AWS ...

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 ...
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ECScape: New AWS ECS flaw lets containers hijack IAM roles without breaking out

Naor Haziz’s discovery shows how a compromised container on EC2-backed ECS tasks can impersonate the ECS agent and steal IAM credentials from other tasks—without host access. At Black Hat USA 2025, ...