Preventing This Week’s AWS Cryptomining Attacks: Why Detection Fails and Permissions Matter

18:07 - 19 Dec 2025

The recent discovery of a cryptomining campaign targeting Amazon compute resources highlights a critical gap in traditional cloud defense. Attackers are bypassing perimeter defenses by leveraging compromised credentials to execute legitimate but privileged API calls like ec2:CreateLaunchTemplate, ecs:RegisterTaskDefinition, ec2:ModifyInstanceAttribute, and lambda:CreateFunctionUrlConfig. While detection tools identify anomalies after they occur, they do not prevent execution, lateral [...]

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