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The shocking speed of AWS key exploitation
2024-12-02 19:16

It’s no secret that developers often inadvertently expose AWS access keys online and we know that these keys are being scraped and misused by attackers before organizations get a chance to revoke them. Clutch Security researchers performed a test to see just how quickly that can happen. They dispersed AWS access keys (in different scenarios) on: Code hosting and version control platforms: GitHub and GitLab Public code repositories: Docker Hub (for containers), npm (for JavaScript … More → The post The shocking speed of AWS key exploitation appeared first on Help Net Security.


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