One of our affiliates recently had an iPhone stolen while on vacation. It goes without saying, once the phone has been turned off and you can't see it in Apple's Find My, best of luck getting it back. One of the issues with stealing an iPhone is the iCloud Activation Lock. When you enable Find My, the device is linked to your iCloud account and you must manually disable it before the phone can be transferred to another person. A few days after the phone was stolen, the new phone received an SMS phishing message with the following URL: hxxps://lcoud.com-1pr7[.]us/?id=XXXXX In our instance, we had a five-digit ID number that started with the number 8. We began to attempt iterations of the 5-digit ID and sure enough, we got a valid HTTP 200 response on the first attempt: When navigating to the resolving IP, we noted there was a wildcard certificate in place for a bunch of other domains: Stepping back, let’s look at the root domain of the original phishing page, com-1pr7.us . The
AndroxGh0st is a family of malware written in Python that notoriously targets Laravel .env files. Since the inception of our new fleet of web honeypots deployed in December 2021, Sicehice has detected this activity and observed tens of thousands of requests with the HTTP POST body set to 0x[]=androxgh0st . Searching this string on GitHub yields various repositories, many of which help identify AWS secrets inadvertently exposed by the Laravel framework. One feature of AndroxGh0st is the ability to search for exposed AWS credentials, namely looking for AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY identifiers. While individuals may mistakenly leak their key pairs to version control repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket, there is always the possibility of inadvertently leaking key pairs directly on web servers as well. AWS has gone through efforts to continually scan GitHub for AWS key pairs and automatically apply the AWS managed policy AWSCompromi