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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Attackers are moving beyond on-prem systems and now using AWS’s own encryption and key management features to lock organizations out of their cloud data. Ransomware operators are shifting their focus ...

There are any number of reasons why it might be useful to compile an inventory report of an S3 bucket on the AWS cloud. For starters, knowing what is in a bucket can help you to better manage data ...

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 ...