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S3 data exfiltration (Incident)

ID: 32da0140-8bc1-5dbb-9d99-30ac29969f40

STIX ID: report--32da0140-8bc1-5dbb-9d99-30ac29969f40

Feed Name: Wiz Cloud Threat Landscape

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2024-01-19

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

Author: [email protected] (Wiz Threat Research)

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Datadog observed an attacker using a compromised AWS IAM access key to gain access, create new admin users (likely automated), enumerate cloud identities and VMs, attempt EC2 Instance Connect to access instances, download data from S3 buckets, and try to spin up new VMs — a cloud compromise involving data exfiltration and persistence attempts.

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