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A criminal operation dubbed Emeraldwhale has been discovered after it dumped more than 15,000 credentials belonging to cloud service and email providers in an open AWS S3 bucket, according to security researchers. The unknown data thieves embarked on a "massive scanning campaign" between August and September, looking for …

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  1. m4r35n357 Silver badge

    I always expose my remote .git directories, it doesn't work otherwise!

    Git is getting a lot of bad press because it is being used by lazy closed-source idiots who should not be trusted with their own data, never mind anyone else's.

    Then on top of that we have the bad press from wizzy GitHub "features" . . .

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  2. Michael Strorm Silver badge

    I mourn the day it became "Emeraldwhale"...

    To me, it'll always be Emeraldwhale Farm.

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