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Abandoned S3 buckets still received more than 8 million HTTP requests over a 2-month period for things like software updates.

PublisherwatchTowr
Report8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur
Published1 February 2025

Published by watchTowr in 8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur , 1 February 2025. The figure is taken from the report as published; the full methodology is in the source.

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watchTowr tracked about 150 AWS S3 buckets that had previously been used across commercial and open source software products, governments and infrastructure before being abandoned.
watchTowr, 01/02/2025

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