Amazon Web Services
Malicious PyPI package with 37,000 downloads steals AWS keys
A malicious Python package named ‘fabrice’ has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers. According to application security company Socket, the package has been downloaded more than 37,000 times and executes platform-specific scripts for Windows and Linux. The large number of downloads is accounted by fabrice typosquatting the […]
AWS, Azure auth keys found in Android and iOS apps used by millions
Multiple popular mobile applications for iOS and Android come with hardcoded, unencrypted credentials for cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, exposing user data and source code to security breaches. Exposing this type of credentials can easily lead to unauthorized access to storage buckets and databases with sensitive user data. Apart from […]