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by weinzierl 2606 days ago
> A few years back (2015 or so) the average time from push-to-repo to AWS account compromise was 6 minutes. Surely that time has only gone down, and the number of different credentials identified has gone up.

I don't doubt that a second and I'd like to use that as a quote. I'd like to be prepared if someone doubts it, so: Do you have a primary source for this?

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This paper may be relevant to your interests: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/04/08/how-bad-can-it-git-chara...
I'll need to find the talk I lifted it from. Not easy... but looks like downthread a sibling comment gives a relatively decent update about the current speed of compromise.
Answering myself: I think it was a BSides London talk. (Quite likely from 2017.) After doing a search, I don't think it was recorded.

Hence, I can't provide a primary source. Sorry.

I thought that AWS nowadays is also feeding at the firehose and auto-disabling any of its keys it could find in a commit?