A Single Cloud Compromise Can Feed an Army of AI Sex Bots

Organizations that get relieved of credentials to their cloud environments can quickly find themselves part of a disturbing new trend: Cybercriminals using stolen cloud credentials to operate and resell sexualized AI-powered chat services. Researchers say these illicit chat bots, which use custom...

Hackers Increasingly Abusing Microsoft Graph API for Stealthy Malware Communications

Threat actors have been increasingly weaponizing Microsoft Graph API for malicious purposes with the aim of evading detection. This is done to "facilitate communications with command-and-control C&C infrastructure hosted on Microsoft cloud services," the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of...

Malicious 'SNS Sender' Script Abuses AWS for Bulk Smishing Attacks

A malicious Python script known as SNS Sender is being advertised as a way for threat actors to send bulk smishing messages by abusing Amazon Web Services AWS Simple Notification Service SNS. The SMS phishing messages are designed to propagate malicious links that are designed to capture victims'...

Agile Approach to Mass Cloud Credential Harvesting and Crypto Mining Sprints Ahead

Developers are not the only people who have adopted the agile methodology for their development processes. From 2023-06-15 to 2023-07-11, Permiso Security's p0 Labs team identified and tracked an attacker developing and deploying eight 8 incremental iterations of their credential harvesting malwa...

TeamTNT's Cloud Credential Stealing Campaign Now Targets Azure and Google Cloud

A malicious actor has been linked to a cloud credential stealing campaign in June 2023 that's focused on Azure and Google Cloud Platform GCP services, marking the adversary's expansion in targeting beyond Amazon Web Services AWS. The findings come from SentinelOne and Permiso, which said the...