Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts

Amazon's AWS GuardDuty security team is warning of an ongoing crypto-mining campaign that targets its Elastic Compute Cloud ...
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ECScape: New AWS ECS flaw lets containers hijack IAM roles without breaking out

Naor Haziz’s discovery shows how a compromised container on EC2-backed ECS tasks can impersonate the ECS agent and steal IAM credentials from other tasks—without host access. At Black Hat USA 2025, ...
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Privilege Escalation Issue in Amazon ECS Leads to IAM Hijacking

BLACK HAT USA – Las Vegas – Thursday, Aug. 7 — A privilege escalation issue in Amazon's Elastic Container Service (ECS) could be used by an attacker to steal credentials and access other cloud ...