GSA Bounty: Subdomain Takeover

@picklepwns discovered a subdomain takeover attack. Technically, the domain was out of scope for our Vulnerability Disclosure Policy. We want to remind hackers to please limit their testing to domains explicitly listed in that scope which is repeated on our HackerOne program page for convenience...

Data Pours from Cloud—And ‘The Enemy is Us’

Accenture, Verizon, Dow Jones and Deep Root Analytics are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the millions of private records and sensitive enterprise data exposed on cloud backends this year. And the problem is getting worse not better. “The enemy is us,” said Chris Vickery, director of...

subjack - Hostile Subdomain Takeover tool written in Go

subjack is a Hostile Subdomain Takeover tool written in Go designed to scan a list of subdomains concurrently and identify ones that are able to be hijacked. With Go's speed and efficiency, this tool really stands out when it comes to mass-testing. Always double check the results manually to rule...

X (Formerly Twitter): Listing of Amazon S3 Bucket accessible to any amazon authenticated user (metrics.pscp.tv)

Summary: It's possible to get a listing of every files in the S3 bucket metrics.pscp.tv Description: The problem is using the AWS command line, it's possible to get a listing of files in the Amazon S3 Bucket with an AWS authentication. See screenshot F230035. This user authentication is easy to g...

New Relic: Newrelic s3 bucket is writeable and deleteable by authorized AWS users

@kunalbahl discovered an open S3 bucket that appeared to belong to us. It was determined that this belonged to another company and this information was forwarded to Amazon for remediation...

Internal Accenture Data, Customer Information Exposed in Public Amazon S3 Bucket

A potentially devastating Amazon S3 bucket exposure left internal Accenture private keys, secret API data and other information publicly available to anyone who could then leverage it to attack the global consulting firm and its clients. The exposure was privately reported to Accenture on Sept. 1...

AWSBucketDump - Security Tool to Look For Interesting Files in S3 Buckets

AWSBucketDump is a tool to quickly enumerate AWS S3 buckets to look for loot. It's similar to a subdomain bruteforcer but is made specifically for S3 buckets and also has some extra features that allow you to grep for delicious files as well as download interesting files if you're not afraid to...

Chris Vickery on Amazon S3 Data Leaks

Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Vickery of UpGuard of the recent rash of Amazon S3 data leaks. Vickery uncovers of the commonalities among these leaks, some of which include AWS misconfigurations and mismanagement of third-party partner relationships. Download: ChrisVickeryonAmazonS3DataLeaks.mp3...

Verizon Wireless Internal Credentials, Infrastructure Details Exposed in Amazon S3 Bucket

Organizations continue to leak data through publicly accessible Amazon S3 buckets, pointing a harsh finger at continued lax attitudes toward the custodianship of sensitive data. Verizon is the latest business affected by this epidemic, leaking in this case files marked confidential from an intern...

Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and...

September 6, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Magellan” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 6, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Why the CIO will report...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14158

Scrapy 1.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via large files because arbitrarily many files are read into memory, which is especially problematic if the files are then individually written in a separate thread to a slow storage resource, as demonstrated by...

Four Million Time Warner Cable Records Left on Misconfigured AWS S3

In what’s almost felt like an epidemic over the last few weeks, yet another slew of sensitive information—600 gigabytes of files—was recently left exposed on two cloud repositories, accessible to anyone. The repositories, owned by BroadSoft, a global communication software and service provider,...

Military Contractor's Vendor Leaks Resumes in Misconfigured AWS S3

Thousands of resumes and job applications containing the personal information of U.S. veterans, many with top secret clearances, and law enforcement officers were left exposed in an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, continuing a trend where poorly configured cloud-storage services are putting people...

BinaryAlert - Serverless, Real-time & Retroactive Malware Detection

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

On the S3 Leaks, Zerodium's Messaging App Bounties, ROPEMAKER, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the recent AWS S3 leaks, Zerodium’s bounty on secure messaging app zero days, Ropemaker, and cobot vulnerabilities. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapAugust252017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Show notes: Industrial Cobots Might Be The...

Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Hosted in Amazon S3 Bucket

As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, cybercriminals are responding in kind by using techniques long reserved for adware, click-fraud and spying to now drop cryptocurrency miners onto compromised computers. The latest incident comes from a rash of drive-by downloads that are...

Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider's Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket

Leaks of personal and business information from unsecured Amazon S3 buckets are piling up. The latest belongs to Groupize, a Boston-area business that sells tools to manage small group meetings as well as a booking engine that handles hotel room-block reservations. Researchers at Kromtech Securit...

August 15, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Cats” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 15, 2017 - Headlines How Cybersecurity Became 2017’s Hot New Major - The...

Amazon Macie and Deep Security

Amazon S3 stores trillions of objects and regularly peaks at millions of requests per second. By any metric, it’s massive. With unparalleled durability and availability, it’s the backbone of AWS’ data services. This morning at the AWS Summit in New York City, AWS launched a new service: Amazon...