Amazon Web Services is recommending its customers to deploy additional security measures to secure S3 buckets following reports of ransomware attacks targeting the platform. See Also: AI Forces a New ...

A new ransomware campaign encrypts Amazon S3 buckets using AWS's Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) known only to the threat actor, demanding ransoms to receive the decryption ...

With an increasing number of enterprises using public and hybrid cloud deployments, and while more sensitive data is stored in cloud service provider (CSP) environments, organizations are aggressively ...

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Storage security is a major concern for IT. Cloud storage -- specifically Amazon S3 -- can be particularly vulnerable if administrators aren't careful. These five Amazon S3 storage security best ...

With the accelerated shift to the cloud, companies are tasked with securing troves of data to maintain compliance, reputation and meet business needs. It’s up to developers to build the necessary ...

A ransomware group is targeting Amazon S3 buckets, exploiting the data stored there using AWS's server-side encryption with customer keys and demanding a ransom in exchange for the encryption key ...

AWS S3 bucket names are global with predictable names that can be exploited in "S3 bucket namesquatting" attacks to access or hijack S3 buckets. In this article, Varonis explains how these attacks ...