Attacking AWS The attack starts with targeting the way that AWS stores credentials in an unencrypted file at ~/.aws/credentials, and additional configuration details in a file at ~/.aws/config.

Ironically enough, hackers don’t seem to be heeding these warnings, either, since the researchers found all of the stolen files - in an unprotected AWS database.

Users of AI cloud services such as Amazon Bedrock are increasingly being targeted by attackers who abuse stolen credentials in a new attack dubbed LLMjacking.

AWS provides capabilities which remove the need to ever store these credentials in source code. For example, AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, ...

Buggy websites hosted on EC2 instances can allow attackers to send unauthorized access requests for exposed EC2 instance metadata.

Abine Inc., the company behind the Blue password manager and DeleteMe privacy-protection service, has admitted that it accidentally exposed data relating to 2.4 million users on a misconfigured ...