Researchers Uncover ECScape Flaw in Amazon ECS Enabling Cross-Task Credential Theft The Hacker [email protected] (The Hacker News)

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated an “end-to-end privilege escalation chain” in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that could be exploited by an attacker to conduct lateral movement, access sensitive data, and seize control of the cloud environment.
The attack technique has been codenamed ECScape by Sweet Security researcher Naor Haziz, who presented the findings today at the Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated an “end-to-end privilege escalation chain” in Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that could be exploited by an attacker to conduct lateral movement, access sensitive data, and seize control of the cloud environment.
The attack technique has been codenamed ECScape by Sweet Security researcher Naor Haziz, who presented the findings today at the 

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