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Thousands of exposed AWS keys remain active

More than 9,300 Amazon Web Services access keys exposed publicly over four years remained usable this month, including hundreds capable of giving an intruder unrestricted control of corporate cloud accounts. Security researchers examining AWS credentials exposed between August 2022 and August 2026 re-tested 10,616 complete key pairs on August 10. Some 9,308, or about 88%, still authenticated…

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