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Google has unveiled its best practices aimed at thwarting dangling bucket takeovers, encouraging developers to fortify their cloud environments.
The tech giant is sounding the alarm about dangling bucket attacks, a vulnerability that arises when developers remove a storage bucket while still having references to it lingering in application code, mobile apps, public documentation, or other locations.
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“An attacker can then simply claim the same bucket name in their own project, effectively hijacking your old address to potentially serve malware and steal data from users who unknowingly still rely on a bucket that is no longer officially in use,” the tech giant says.
Google advises a careful process for decommissioning this cloud storage and provided a four-step guide to secure unused buckets.
Google’s best practices here.
