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Security Stop-Press : AI-Assisted AWS Attack Achieves Admin Access in Under 10 Minutes

Published 12 February 2026

Researchers say an attacker used AI assistance to gain full administrative access to an AWS environment in under ten minutes after stealing exposed cloud credentials. The incident, observed (on 28 November) by the Sysdig Threat Research Team, began with valid IAM credentials taken from publicly accessible Amazon S3 buckets. Those […]

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