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Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins

Thursday December 18, 2025. 07:53 PM , from TheRegister
'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational'
Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else's cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS customers, abusing their Elastic Container Service (ECS) and their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resources, in an ongoing operation that started on November 2.…
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