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New “whoAMI” Attack Exploits AWS AMI Name Confusion for Remote Code Execution

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new type of name confusion attack called whoAMI that allows anyone who publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name to gain code execution within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.
“If executed at scale, this attack could be used to gain access to thousands of accounts,” Datadog Security Labs researcher Seth Art said in a report