BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 8 – Six critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services (AWS) could have allowed threat actors to target organizations with remote code execution (RCE), ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...