S3 buckets have quietly become a credential blind spot: years of logs, backups, and pipeline output that nobody ever scans for secrets. In one 2025 incident (Sysdig), attackers reached admin access in eight minutes using IAM keys found in a public bucket.
First seen on securityboulevard.com
Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/aws-s3-bucket-security-find-the-secrets-hiding-outside-git/
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