Alert: Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts
Alert: Threat Actors Can Leverage AWS STS to Infiltrate Cloud Accounts
06 December 2023
Threat actors can take advantage of Amazon Web Services Security Token Service (AWS STS) as a way to infiltrate cloud accounts and conduct follow-on attacks.
The service enables threat actors to impersonate user identities and roles in cloud environments, Red Canary researchers Thomas Gardner and Cody Betsworth said in a Tuesday analysis.
AWS STS is a web service that enables