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Security Advisory: Mitiga Recommends All AWS Customers Running Community AMIs to Verify Them for Malicious Code

ID: 08e97b65-c0ff-51d4-a5bb-f08c9a974c93

STIX ID: report--08e97b65-c0ff-51d4-a5bb-f08c9a974c93

Feed Name: Mitiga

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-07-16

Date Updated: 2026-07-29

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**Executive summary:** Mitiga's security research identified a Community AWS AMI that included an embedded Monero cryptocurrency miner; the advisory warns that Community AMIs may harbor malware, backdoors, or delayed-trigger ransomware, and recommends verifying or terminating instances created from Community AMIs and using trusted AWS Marketplace AMIs instead.

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