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Cloud-native big data and security analytics firm Sumo Logic is investigating a potential security incident within their platform, the company revealed on Tuesday. "On Friday, November 3rd, 2023, Sumo Logic discovered evidence of a potential security incident. The activity identified used a compromised credential to access a Sumo Logic AWS account," the company said in its security notice.

In the active Elektra-Leak campaign, attackers hunt for Amazon IAM credentials within public GitHub repositories before using them for cryptomining. New research from Palo Alto Networks's Unit 42 exposes an active attack campaign in which a threat actor hunts for Amazon IAM credentials in real time in GitHub repositories and starts using them less than five minutes later.

Security researchers have uncovered a multi-year cryptojacking campaign they claim autonomously clones GitHub repositories and steals their exposed AWS credentials. Given the name "EleKtra-Leak" by researchers at Palo Alto Networks's Unit 42, the criminals behind the campaign are credited with regularly stealing AWS credentials within five minutes of them being exposed in GitHub repositories.

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...

Find out what security teams should do now, and hear what Cloudflare's CEO has to say about this DDoS. Google, AWS and Cloudflare have reported the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability named HTTP/2 Rapid Reset and tracked as CVE-2023-44487, which is currently used in the wild to run the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack campaigns ever seen. The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack works by leveraging HTTP/2's stream cancellation feature: The attacker sends a request and cancels it immediately.

GitHub has announced an improvement to its secret scanning feature that extends validity checks to popular services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, and Slack. Validity...

Amazon will require all privileged AWS accounts to use multi-factor authentication for stronger protection against account hijacks leading to data breaches, starting in mid-2024.Amazon has been offering free MFA security keys for eligible AWS customers in the United States since 2021 and added more flexible MFA options on the platform in November 2022, allowing the registration of up to 8 MFA devices per account.

Amazon wants to make it more difficult for attackers to compromise Amazon Web Services root accounts, by requiring those account holders to enable multi-factor authentication. The root account holder is the first identity created when creating an AWS account and the most privileged user, as it has access to all AWS services and resources in the account.

Interview AWS has unveiled MadPot, its previously secret threat-intelligence tool that one of the cloud giant's security execs tells us has thwarted Chinese and Russian spies - and millions of bots. The massive honeypot system has been around since 2010, and includes tens of thousands of threat sensors monitoring criminals' attempts to connect with AWS decoys.

A novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation has set its eyes on uncommon Amazon Web Services offerings such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. "The AMBERSQUID operation was able to exploit cloud services without triggering the AWS requirement for approval of more resources, as would be the case if they only spammed EC2 instances," Sysdig security researcher Alessandro Brucato said in a report shared with The Hacker News.