Hackers Weaponize AWS X-Ray Service to Work as Covert Command & Control Server

A sophisticated technique uncovered where threat actors abuse Amazon Web Services‘ X-Ray distributed tracing service to establish covert command and control (C2) communications, demonstrating how legitimate cloud infrastructure can be weaponized for malicious purposes. AWS X-Ray, designed to help developers analyze application performance through distributed tracing, has been repurposed by red team researchers into a […]

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