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> When Identity is the Attack Path

[SOURCE] The Hacker News [DATE: 21/05/2026 10:30] [LANGUAGE: EN]
When Identity is the Attack Path
Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do - a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one misconfigured anything or violated a policy. Yet that single key, which was easily accessible to a minor-league attacker, could have opened a path to some 98% of entities in the company's cloud
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