{"id":1987,"date":"2025-02-14T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/whoami-attacks-give-hackers-code-execution-on-amazon-ec2-instances\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T10:03:51","slug":"whoami-attacks-give-hackers-code-execution-on-amazon-ec2-instances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/whoami-attacks-give-hackers-code-execution-on-amazon-ec2-instances\/","title":{"rendered":"whoAMI attacks give hackers code execution on Amazon EC2 instances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    whoAMI attacks give hackers code execution on Amazon EC2 instances<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Security researchers discovered a name confusion attack that allows\u00a0access to an Amazon Web Services account to anyone that publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/whoami-attacks-give-hackers-code-execution-on-amazon-ec2-instances\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>whoAMI attacks give hackers code execution on Amazon EC2 instances Security researchers discovered a name confusion attack that allows\u00a0access to an Amazon Web Services account to anyone that publishes an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) with a specific name. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,531,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-1987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-cloud","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}