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by g15jv2dp 704 days ago
And then what?
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Send targeted phishing mails.
Our company got hit with this. I guess there's no way to recover from this other than do our best to block these.
How does knowing the AWS username allow you to send a more effective phishing email? Especially if the username is just the user's... name. That's public info.
I can already do that by sending them for root. This seems like trying to make something out of nothing.
Are you stuck in the 70s or something? I can't recall the last time I read email addressed to root.
My friend, the main AWS account is called the root account and its username is root, so your zinger didn't zing.