Attackers can gain access to AWS accounts or sensitive data by creating in advance S3 storage buckets with predictable names that will be automatically used by various services and tools. Researchers ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced at its re:Invent conference today significant updates to its Amazon Simple Storage Service that are designed to make S3 the first cloud object store with fully ...

With the sheer amount of data and users leveraging AWS, it’s easy for misconfigurations to slip through the cracks. One commonly overlooked area is the naming of S3 buckets. AWS S3 bucket names are ...

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 8 – Six critical vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services (AWS) could have allowed threat actors to target organizations with remote code execution (RCE), ...

A new ransomware campaign encrypts Amazon S3 buckets using AWS's Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) known only to the threat actor, demanding ransoms to receive the decryption ...

Attackers re-register abandoned AWS S3 buckets filled with malicious files that are executed by applications looking for these buckets. Code references to nonexistent cloud assets continue to pose ...

Ransomware threats continue to evolve, with cloud environments and object storage like Amazon S3 becoming an increasingly frequent target. In a recent online summit titled "Real-World Ransomware ...

Abandoned cloud storage buckets present a major, but largely overlooked, threat to Internet security, new research has shown. The risks arise when bad actors discover and re-register these neglected ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Account Regional Namespaces for Amazon S3 General Purpose Buckets. This allows customers to create bucket names in a reserved namespace per account and region ...