Inside the Massive AWS Cloud Breach: How Exploited .env Files Led to a Global Extortion Campaign
Introduction In a groundbreaking cyber attack, a sophisticated threat actor launched a large-scale extortion campaign that exploited vulnerabilities in cloud systems. Targeting over 230 million unique cloud environments, the attack leveraged exposed environment variable (.env) files to gain unauthorized access and execute a comprehensive data exfiltration and extortion scheme. This blog provides an in-depth analysis … Read more