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 ...

Here’s how it works. Cybercriminals have started exploiting legitimate AWS S3 features to encrypt victim buckets in a unique twist to the old ransomware attack. Researchers from Halycon recently ...

The target is Amazon S3 buckets and the attack uses AWS’ own encryption to make data virtually unrecoverable without paying the attackers for a decryption key, said a report by researchers at ...

Attackers access storage buckets with exposed AWS keys The files are then encrypted and scheduled for deletion after a week Halycon says it observed at least two victims being attacked this way ...

IAM_EC2_S3.md Part 1 : create a User and a Group using IAM Log into your AWS management console using $ https://console.aws.amazon.com. I'm using MFA to secure my root account access coupled with ...

A threat actor has been observed abusing compromised AWS keys to encrypt data in S3 buckets and demand a ransom payment in exchange for the encryption keys, cybersecurity firm Halcyon reports. As part ...