Majority of AWS accounts are vulnerable to ransomware

As more data moves to the cloud, platforms like AWS are becoming an increasingly attractive target for ransomware operators. A new study by cloud infrastructure company Ermetic finds that 70 percent of environments studied had machines that were publicly exposed to the internet and were linked to identities whose permissions could be exploited to allow the machines to perform ransomware. "Very few companies are aware that data stored in cloud infrastructures like AWS is at risk from ransomware attacks, so we conducted this research to investigate how often the right conditions exist for Amazon S3 buckets to be compromised," says… [Continue Reading]