Hackers Exploit AWS IAM Eventual Consistency to Establish Persistence

A critical persistence technique in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) stemming from its eventual consistency model, allowing attackers to retain access even after defenders delete compromised access keys. AWS IAM, like many distributed systems, employs eventual consistency to scale across regions and replicas. Updates to resources such as access keys or policies propagate with […]

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