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An API Worm in the Making: Thousands of Secrets Found in Open S3 Buckets (trufflesecurity.com)
2 points by samizdis on Aug 4, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Also, news article based on this at:

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/03/leaky_s3_buckets/

> "...automated search tools were able to stumble across some 4,000 open Amazon S3 buckets ..."

> "In some cases, more than 10 secrets were found in a single file. These included SQL Server passwords, Coinbase API keys, MongoDB credentials, and logins for other AWS buckets that actually were configured to ask for a password."

> "... the Truffle crew believes that the real danger is that the exposed 'secrets' would have a cascading effect where an attacker could use the exposed keys and credentials to get into other, more secure accounts and services."




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