Security News > 2025 > February > whoAMI attacks give hackers code execution on Amazon EC2 instances
2025-02-13 23:35
Security researchers discovered a name confusion attack that allows access to an Amazon Web Services account to anyone that publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name. [...]
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