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Exposed security-training web apps exploitation wave

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DVWA, OWASP Juice Shop, Hackazon, and bWAPP instances exposed in cloud environments are being actively exploited, putting Fortune 500 companies and security vendors at risk of cloud takeover, miner deployment, and webshell persistence. Pentera found 1,926 live vulnerable applications on AWS, GCP, and Azure, with many tied to overly privileged IAM roles and default credentials. Several affected organizations, including Cloudflare, F5, and Palo Alto Networks, have since remediated the exposed instances.

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Timeline

  1. 21.01.2026 16:00 3 articles · 5mo ago

    Pentera reports active exploitation of exposed security-training web apps in cloud environments

    Initial Disclosure

    Pentera reports active abuse of misconfigured security-training and internal pentest web apps such as DVWA, OWASP Juice Shop, Hackazon, and bWAPP that were exposed on AWS, GCP, and Azure and often tied to overly privileged IAM (Identity and Access Management) roles and default credentials. The findings cover 1,926 live vulnerable applications and indicate attacker activity including XMRig Monero mining, webshell deployment, persistence mechanisms, and access paths into cloud resources such as S3 buckets, GCS, Azure Blob Storage, Secrets Manager, and container registries; Cloudflare, F5, and Palo Alto Networks received the findings and fixed exposed instances.

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