Cyber Pirates Hijack AWS Keys, Unleash Monero-Mining Mayhem: The EleKtra-Leak Saga Unfolds!
GitHub’s security feature, efficient as a cat catching mice, isn’t foolproof against the Elektra-Leak AWS key exposure. Some digital pirates are outsmarting the system, seizing exposed keys and mining Monero on Amazon EC2 instances. It’s a cryptojacking campaign that’s slicker than a greased weasel and twice as tricky.
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GitHub, the coder's favorite hangout spot, has a built-in security feature that is as efficient as a cat catching mice -- almost always, but not quite. It scans for exposed Amazon Web Services (AWS) keys and reports them to AWS faster than you can say "data breach". But, surprise surprise, it's not exactly foolproof. Some digital pirates have found a way around it, grabbing the exposed keys and making merry with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. They're mining Monero like there's no tomorrow, creating a cryptojacking campaign that even has a fancy name: "EleKtra-Leak".Already a member? Log in here