The Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is being used to send phishing emails that can bypass standard security filters and render reputation-based blocks
ineffective, Bleeping Computer reports. Kaspersky researchers say in a report that there has been “an uptick in phishing
attacks leveraging Amazon SES” to deliver links that redirect to a malicious site.The spike in this abuse may be due to a large number of AWS Identity and Access
Management access keys exposed in public assets.