An API key with high enough permissions, you don't need console access, you
can just do everything from the AWS CLI.

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Tom Perrine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Following this closely.  Note that as far as anyone can tell, neither
> was using the MFA option for control panel access.
>
> bonsai said they suspect a compromised API key, I don't pay enough
> attention to AWS to know if/how an API key can be leveraged to get
> console access.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Does anybody know what's going on (codespaces.com, bonzai.io)?
> >>
> >> Is it a series of people making obvious mistake (easily guesses
> password,
> >> keys spread to public places, etc...)?
> >>
> >> Or some new type of attack not so obvious, and that more sites thinking
> >> they are secure might be exposed to?
> >
> >
> > I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same kind of social engineering
> attack
> > that works so well to get access to payroll accounts (as reported every
> > other week or so by Krebs...).
> >
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