CREDENTIALS AND MISCONFIGURATIONS BEHIND MOST CLOUD BREACHES, SAYS AWS

Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter

The 'Building Cloud Trust" report by AWS and Vanson Bourne surveyed 2,800 organizations across 13 countries, revealing that about 80% experienced data breaches in the past year, with common attack vectors including vulnerability exploitation, compromised credentials, misconfigurations, and physical theft. Attackers are increasingly using stolen credentials through methods like VPN/VDI abuse, AI-enabled phishing, and legitimate tool exploitation, with a predicted shift toward targeting non-human identities protected by single-factor authentication. To combat these threats, security teams should focus on cloud security posture management, adopt phishing-resistant MFA, enforce least privilege access, and prioritize patching internet-facing infrastructure, while acknowledging human error as a primary cause.