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Phishing attack impersonates Amazon Web Services to steal user credentials
2020-05-28 11:56

The emails spoof an automated notification from AWS to try to capture Amazon account credentials, according to Abnormal Security.

A blog post published Wednesday by security provider Abnormal Security describes how phishing attacks are taking advantage of Amazon Web Services to steal user credentials.

In this new phishing campaign, the attackers deploy an email that contains an automated notification allegedly from Amazon Web Services.

All the payload links take the user to AWS credential phishing websites.

Each of the phishing emails discovered have come from the same IP address hosted by a French VPN. "Employee credentials that can get to their cloud accounts are an easy way to get to the prized possessions of an organization," said CloudKnox Security CEO Balaji Parimi.


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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/phishing-attack-impersonates-amazon-web-services-to-steal-user-credentials/#ftag=RSS56d97e7

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