whoAMI attacks give hackers code execution on Amazon EC2 instances
Security researchers discovered a name confusion attack that allows access to an Amazon Web Services account to anyone that publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name.
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whoAMI name confusion attacks can hack into AWS accounts for code execution
Due to a misconfiguration, developers could be tricked into retrieving malicious Amazon Machine Images (AMI) while creating ...
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Amazon Security Chief On Stopping 2.7 Trillion EC2 Attacks, 28 Billion S3 Storage Attempts
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New "whoAMI" Attack Exploits AWS AMI Name Confusion for Remote Code Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new type of name confusion attack called whoAMI that allows anyone who publishes an Amazon Machine Image ( AMI) with a specific name to gain code execution ...