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 ...
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 ...
The Hacker News

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 ...

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 ...
Security Boulevard

TruffleNet and Cloud Abuse at Scale: An Identity Architecture Failure

The recent TruffleNet campaign, first documented by Fortinet, highlights a familiar and uncomfortable truth for security leaders: some of the most damaging cloud attacks aren’t exploiting zero-day ...
Security Boulevard

AWS Report Links Multi-Year Effort to Compromise Cloud Services to Russia

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today published a report detailing a series of cyberattacks occurring over multiple years attributable to Russia's Main ...
Computer Weekly

AWS targets vulnerable code with security agent

Invent 2025, the cloud giant unveiled a security agent designed to bridge the gap between development speed and security validation, along with the general availability of Security Hub analytics ...
Virtualization Review

Cloud Security Alliance Sheds Light on 'Shadow Access' IAM Problem

The Cloud Security Alliance is talking up a new security concern for IT pros to worry about, "Shadow Access," or the unintended access to organizational applications and data. "The consequences of ...