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Google and industry partners have dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet.
Summary
Writing in the Google Cloud blog, the Google Threat Intelligence Group said it assessed with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by Videostrong Technology Co., […]
This is a brief wire summary, the full story (linked below) has the complete details.
KazaSec's take
Most public cloud incidents trace back to a misconfiguration, an overly permissive IAM role, a storage bucket left open, a default setting nobody revisited, rather than a flaw in the cloud provider itself. A cloud security review is built to catch exactly that class of mistake before it's found the hard way.
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