A new body of evidence indicates threat actors are using increasingly advanced techniques to target unsecured cloud users. Threat Stack security team spotted the pattern over multiple years of observing behavior on client networks. The problem, the team notes, is not with the way attackers are maliciously using it. Amazon has deployed a managed service called GuardDuty to monitor for malicious or unauthorized deployments and help AWS users protect their workload and their workloads. Amazon emphasizes S3 buckets are secured by default; it also launched Macie to protect AWS S3 data and provides free bucket checks.”]