Within 5 Minutes, Hackers Were Able to Get AWS Credentials From GitHub

Recent reports indicate that a new campaign under the name EleKtra-Leak has been identified to target AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) credentials within minutes of their public exposure on GitHub. This is done to perform cryptojacking activities through compromised AWS accounts. Threat actors were using multiple Amazon EC2 instances to keep the scope wider […]

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