{"id":2007,"date":"2025-02-15T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/new-whoami-attack-exploits-aws-ami-name-html\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T07:03:27","slug":"new-whoami-attack-exploits-aws-ami-name-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/new-whoami-attack-exploits-aws-ami-name-html\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cwhoAMI\u201d Attack Exploits AWS AMI Name Confusion for Remote Code Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New \u201cwhoAMI\u201d Attack Exploits AWS AMI Name Confusion for Remote Code Execution<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>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.<br \/>\n&#8220;If executed at scale, this attack could be used to gain access to thousands of accounts,&#8221; Datadog Security Labs researcher Seth Art said in a report<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/02\/new-whoami-attack-exploits-aws-ami-name.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New \u201cwhoAMI\u201d 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. &#8220;If executed at scale, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}