Mitiga researchers found that the AWS SSM agent could be hijacked and turned into a remote access trojan that is difficult to detect. For many years now, attackers have pivoted from using ...

Threat actors have been observed using Amazon Web Services (AWS) 's System Manager (SSM) agent as a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) on Linux and Windows machines. According to a new security report ...

The exploit involves the potential for the SSM agent to be used as a remote access trojan or RAT virus on both Linux and Windows machines, controlled via an attacker-owned AWS account. The ...