Editors' note: This article and its headline was updated to correct details about ownership of the S3 bucket and contents therein. Another week, another publicly accessible AWS storage cloud found to ...

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 ...

Abandoned AWS S3 buckets could be reused to hijack the global software supply chain in an attack that would make Russia's ...

Attackers re-register abandoned AWS S3 buckets filled with malicious files that are executed by applications looking for these buckets. Code references to nonexistent cloud assets continue to pose ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re using Amazon Web Services and your S3 storage bucket can be reached from the open web, you’d do well not to pick a generic name for that space. Avoid “example,” skip “change_me,” don’t even ...