By leveraging IAM and bucket policies, users can also enforce DSSE-KMS. Each encryption layer employs a distinct cryptographic implementation library with its own data encryption keys.

In one interesting twist, the threat actors behind EleKtra-Leak were found to blacklist AWS accounts that habitually expose IAM credentials.

IT admins use group policies to manage user access via Active Directory, but AWS takes a subtly different approach, which can be exploited.

Almost 80% of AWS environments contained IAM (Identity Access Management) users with enabled access keys not used for 180 days or more, leading to potential ransomware risk.

Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure have several options for IAM policies. The following are best practices to consider when using these platforms. 1) Protect the Root ...

Naor Haziz’s discovery shows how a compromised container on EC2-backed ECS tasks can impersonate the ECS agent and steal IAM credentials from other tasks—without host access.