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Abuse Of Amazon Simple Service For Phishing On The Rise

The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is being used to send phishing emails that can bypass standard security filters and render reputation-based blocks ineffective, Bleeping Computer reports. Kaspersky researchers say in a report that there has been “an uptick in phishing attacks leveraging Amazon SES” to deliver links that redirect to a malicious site.The spike in this abuse may be due to a large number of AWS Identity and Access Management access keys exposed in public assets.

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