EleKtra-Leak Cryptojacking Attacks Exploit AWS IAM Credentials Exposed on GitHub
EleKtra-Leak Cryptojacking Attacks Exploit AWS IAM Credentials Exposed on GitHub
30 October 2023
A new ongoing campaign dubbed EleKtra-Leak has set its eyes on exposed Amazon Web Service (AWS) identity and access management (IAM) credentials within public GitHub repositories to facilitate cryptojacking activities.
"As a result of this, the threat actor associated with the campaign was able to create multiple AWS Elastic Compute (EC2) instances that they used for wide-ranging and