Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access

Amazon EC2 instances under fire from whoAMI attacks potentially giving hackers code execution access


  • A flaw named WhoAMI was found in Amazon Machine Image
  • It allows threat actors to gain RCE abilities on people’s AWS accounts
  • A fix has been released, but many users are still yet to update

Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are potentially vulnerable…

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