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110K Domains Targeted in 'Sophisticated' AWS Cloud Extortion Campaign


A sophisticated extortion campaign has targeted 110,000 domains by exploiting misconfigured AWS environment files, security firm Cyble reports. The attackers scanned for exposed .env files containing cloud access keys and other sensitive data. Organizations that failed to secure their AWS environmen...

A sophisticated extortion campaign has targeted 110,000 domains by exploiting misconfigured AWS environment files, security firm Cyble reports. Organizations that failed to secure their AWS environments found their S3-stored data replaced with ransom notes. The attackers used a series of API calls to verify data, enumerate IAM users, and locate S3 buckets.

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