Security News > 2025 > January > Week in review: AWS S3 data encrypted without ransomware, data of 15k Fortinet firewalls leaked

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Attackers are encrypting AWS S3 data without using ransomware A ransomware gang dubbed Codefinger is encrypting data stored in target organizations’ AWS S3 buckets with AWS’s server-side encryption option with customer-provided keys (SSE-C), and asking for money to hand over the key they used. Configuration files for 15,000 Fortinet firewalls leaked. Are yours among them? A threat actor has leaked … More → The post Week in review: AWS S3 data encrypted without ransomware, data of 15k Fortinet firewalls leaked appeared first on Help Net Security.
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