Leaked Environment Variables Fuel Cloud Data Extortion

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A sophisticated extortion campaign targeted cloud environments, leveraging the scalability of cloud platforms to exploit exposed environment variable files containing sensitive credentials. This operation compromised 110,000 domains, uncovering over 90,000 unique environment variables, including 7,000 access keys linked to cloud services and 1,500 associated with social media accounts.

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