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 ...
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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 ...
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Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 7 — A privilege escalation issue in Amazon's Elastic Container Service (ECS) could be used by an attacker to steal credentials and access other cloud ...