The security team at Twilio, a cloud communications company that claimed over $1 billion in revenue last year, could breathe a sigh of relief on Sunday night. Earlier in the day, someone had manipulated the code in a software product that Twilio customers use to route calls and other communications. The breach resembled a Magecart-style attack that skims websites for users’ financial data. Twilio cleaned up the code hours later, and said there was no sign the attackers had accessed customer data. But the damage could have been worse if the attack had been targeted, multiple security experts told CyberScoop. With access to the code, which was sitting in an unsecured Amazon cloud storage service known as an S3 bucket, the attackers could have conducted phishing attacks or distributed malware through the platform, according to Yonathan Klijnsma, head of threat research at security company RiskIQ. Dave Kennedy, founder of cybersecurity […]
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