GitHub-stored AWS credentials targeted by new cryptojacking campaign

Publicly exposed GitHub repositories have been cloned by threat actors looking to exfiltrate Amazon Web Services credentials as part of the EleKtra-Leak cryptojacking operation that commenced in 2020, reports The Register.

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