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    Public S3 Bucket Exposure: Misconfiguration Risks in 2025

    Casmer Labs, the threat research team within Cloud Storage Security, continues to observe cases in 2025 where sensitive data is exposed through publicly accessible cloud storage. In these cases, exposure typically comes from configuration, not intrusion. A storage resource such as an Amazon S3 bucket is left open to the internet and contains real customer data, financial records, or other regulated information. When an S3 bucket is publicly readable, often called an S3 bucket misconfiguration, anyone with the URL can download its contents. That is a cloud data exposure event even if there is no exploit, malware, or credential theft involved.

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    Massive Data Breach Could Affect 10% of Texas-Based Truckers

    Casmer Labs, the threat research team within Cloud Storage Security, has continued to observe cases in 2025 where sensitive data became exposed through publicly accessible cloud storage. These exposures are typically caused by configuration, not intrusion. A storage resource such as an Amazon S3 bucket is left open to the internet and ends up holding real personal and compliance documentation. In these situations, no exploit is required. If an S3 bucket allows public read or list access, anyone who can locate it can download its contents. That is a cloud data exposure event even if there was no malware, credential theft, or lateral movement. One recent case involving AJT Compliance LLC shows how severe this can get.

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    TransUnion 2025: Third-Party App Abuse, OAuth Access, and 4.46M Affected

    Casmer Labs is the internal threat research team within Cloud Storage Security. We track significant activity in cybersecurity, cloud security, and cloud data security. Our goal is to document what occurred, how it occurred, and which controls are relevant.

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    August Threat Report: Qilin Attacks Inotiv & Nissan, NFCU Exposes 378TB

    Casmer Labs is the internal threat research team within Cloud Storage Security. We monitor activity in cybersecurity, cloud security, and cloud data security. Our role is to document material incidents and explain where organizations are still exposed.

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    World’s Largest Credit Union Leaks 378GB of Data

    Cloud Growth and Escalating Risk Cloud computing has reshaped how organizations store, manage, and secure information. The global public cloud market has accelerated from roughly one hundred fifty six billion dollars in 2020 to projections in the hundreds of billions of dollars for 2025, with some estimates approaching nine hundred billion dollars in total cloud spend. At the same time, overall data volume continues to increase. Industry analysts expect that more than one hundred zettabytes of information will reside in cloud infrastructure by the end of 2025. That would account for a significant share of global digital data. As more data moves to the cloud, the risk surface changes. Applications, workflows, and regulated data are distributed across multiple accounts, regions, and services. Each storage location such as an Amazon S3 bucket, an EBS snapshot, or an EFS file system has its own configuration model. A single misconfiguration can expose internal information at scale.

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    FTX Japan Breach Exposes 26M Records via Amazon S3 Error

    By late 2024 the public cloud had become the default platform for building and running new applications, business workflows, and data processing pipelines. Cloud adoption continued to accelerate through 2025. Industry forecasts place overall cloud spend in the hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of 2025. Analysts also estimate that more than one hundred zettabytes of data will reside in cloud infrastructure by the end of 2025, representing a significant portion of global digital data. As more workloads move, more data follows. Customer records, payment history, internal analytics output, compliance evidence, audit logs, and operational reports are all copied into cloud storage. That data does not live in a single place. It is replicated across object storage, snapshots, file systems, analytics buckets, and backup archives in multiple regions and accounts. Every storage location, for example an Amazon S3 bucket, an Azure Blob container, or a Google Cloud Storage bucket, has dozens of configuration options. A single misconfiguration can make internal data publicly reachable without any exploit.

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    Casmer Labs Presents: Quarterly Threat Report (Q2 25')

    The cyber threat landscape is constantly changing, influenced by global politics, technological advances, and more. In 2023, ChatGPT was first used to generate malicious code; in 2024, infostealers and high-profile attacks on federal and Fortune 500 organizations rose. In Q2 of 2025, new alarming trends made themselves known.

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    Columbia University Expose 460GB of Sensitive Records in Targeted Hack

    Casmer Labs, Cloud Storage Security’s (CSS) internal threat research laboratory, closely monitors breaches and threats impacting cloud environments and particularly the data contained within. In this report, we analyze the June 2025 cyberattack on Columbia University —a significant breach against a higher education institution in terms of scope, impact, and complexity.

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    June Threat Report: INTERPOL Attacks Infostealers

    Casmer Labs, Cloud Storage Security’s (CSS) internal threat laboratory, monitors the dynamic landscape of cybersecurity, cloud security, and particularly cloud data security. Our mission is to ensure that our customers and the public are informed about critical security developments, incidents, and updates.

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