Security News > 2023 > October > EleKtra-Leak Cryptojacking Attacks Exploit AWS IAM Credentials Exposed on GitHub
2023-10-30 10:56
A new ongoing campaign dubbed EleKtra-Leak has set its eyes on exposed Amazon Web Service (AWS) identity and access management (IAM) credentials within public GitHub repositories to facilitate cryptojacking activities. "As a result of this, the threat actor associated with the campaign was able to create multiple AWS Elastic Compute (EC2) instances that they used for wide-ranging and
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