Planting backdoors and stealing secrets if not crypto miners!

Before deep diving in this article, I would like to share two awesome resources on the research done on EC2 snapshots/AMI’s

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Why should you encrypt your AWS EBS snapshots!

Have you wondered whether encrypting AWS EBS snapshots, is it helpful in terms of security or is it just a best practice from AWS or a compliance check. Here’s a short story on why encryption of snapshot had been helpful in stopping/escalating an attack.

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Author's profile picture Shivankar on Product-Security