[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f4M3GASCgvxC9qx-Q1XB0i8giQdgYGwQWfv-OBoJQQRE":3},{"article":4,"iocs":53,"watch_terms":58,"solutions":59,"lesson":143},{"id":5,"title":6,"slug":7,"summary":8,"ai_summary":9,"brief":10,"url":11,"image_url":12,"published_at":13,"ingested_at":14,"relevance_score":15,"entities":16,"category_id":32,"category":33,"article_tags":37},"2953c44d-9d2a-4913-87d3-83d4d32e95af","The Sub-10-Minute Cloud Takeover: How Exposed IAM Keys, Misconfiguration and AI Are Rewriting the Rules of Cloud Breaches","the-sub-10-minute-cloud-takeover-how-exposed-iam-keys-misconfiguration-and-ai-ar-893985","Key Takeaways Two real-world cloud attacks reached meaningful impact in less than ten minutes despite pursuing entirely different objectives. Both attackers treated the environment as a connected system, using existing permissions and relationships to expand their reach. Reconnaissance increasingly focuses on understanding access and capability rather than discovering vulnerable assets. AI is compressing the gap […]","Two real-world cloud attacks demonstrated rapid compromise timelines: one crypto-mining attack reached meaningful impact in 10 minutes using compromised AWS credentials, while an AI-assisted attack exploited an exposed access key in an S3 bucket to escalate privileges across 19 AWS principals and abuse Amazon Bedrock in under 8 minutes. Both attacks leveraged the cloud's inherent efficiency and accumulated permissions, with reconnaissance focused on understanding access capabilities rather than discovering vulnerabilities. AI is accelerating the attack timeline by compressing the gap between discovery, decision-making, and execution.","Attackers exploit exposed IAM keys to compromise AWS in under 10 minutes using AI-assisted techniques.","https:\u002F\u002Fblog.qualys.com\u002Fproduct-tech\u002F2026\u002F07\u002F27\u002Fthe-sub-10-minute-cloud-takeover-how-exposed-iam-keys-misconfiguration-and-ai-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-cloud-breaches","https:\u002F\u002Fik.imagekit.io\u002Fqualys\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2026\u002F07\u002FBlog-Images-1080x1080.Cloud_.Agent_.2025.Updates-13-2.png","2026-07-27T15:00:00+00:00","2026-07-27T16:00:25.849552+00:00",9,[17,20,23,25,27,29],{"name":18,"type":19},"Amazon","vendor",{"name":21,"type":22},"AWS","product",{"name":24,"type":22},"Amazon Bedrock",{"name":26,"type":22},"EC2",{"name":28,"type":22},"ECS",{"name":30,"type":31},"IAM","technology","c70f3a41-2f0c-4608-870d-b8cbcd8be076",{"id":32,"icon":34,"name":35,"slug":36},null,"Cloud 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