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Truffle Security, the company that makes it easy to find, verify, and remediate secrets, today announced TruffleHog AWS Analyze, a new addition to TruffleHog Enterprise. TruffleHog AWS Analyze enriches found AWS credentials to highlight permissions and access levels, so a security team can assess the risk and prioritize its response.
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TruffleHog Enterprise already finds and verifies leaked credentials across 800+ secret types, and with TruffleHog Analyze, it can also provide identity and access context, first for SaaS platforms and Google Cloud, and now for AWS. With this addition, teams running multi-cloud environments can identify a leaked secret, understand what it can access, and prioritize remediation across all three surfaces.
TruffleHog AWS Analyze shows full context for leaked keys
Once an AWS credential leaks, understanding its impact can require manually piecing together identity, permissions, and IAM relationships. TruffleHog AWS Analyze does that investigation for security teams. It identifies the AWS user or role behind the credential, maps its effective permissions, and reveals which roles it can assume to gain additional access, giving responders a clearer picture of the potential blast radius. It also flags when AWS returns incomplete results, so teams know when the analysis provides only a partial view.
"Agentic workflows are creating, using, and exposing AWS credentials faster than any team can track. Once a key ends up embedded in an automated process, it is copied and reused well beyond its original purpose, often persisting long after anyone remembers it exists. Identifying a leaked credential is one challenge but understanding what it can actually reach can be difficult to determine. TruffleHog AWS Analyze gives security teams that context as part of the same workflow, so they know exactly what has been exposed and fix it easily," said Dylan Ayrey, CEO and founder of Truffle Security.
AWS keys are exposed frequently; fixing them lags behind
AWS keys are among the most frequently leaked credentials, and many stay active long after they have been exposed. Because a single AWS key can reach compute, storage, databases, etc., a leak doesn't just expose one system, it exposes the permissions that control every other system.
Truffle Security Research recently verified 64,024 unique leaked AWS keys pulled from public code, container images, and datasets, and found that 88% still were active. The median leaked key had been sitting active for five years, and only 14% had ever been rotated. Among the keys researched closely, 84% carried full administrator access, and 1 in 6 was a root key, which provides access to an AWS account.
Surprisingly, 929 of these credentials had already been flagged by AWS's own compromised-key quarantine policy, some more than three years earlier and every one still authenticated. Even though AWS had detected the exposure, no one had remediated them.
When TruffleHog scanned 7.6 petabytes of public AI training data on Hugging Face, it found the same exposure at scale. 3,343 live AWS keys were still live, more than 900 of which could list S3 buckets holding at least 51.7 TB of private data.
"We proactively scan the Hub with TruffleHog and notify publishers by email when we find a verified secret. But an alert is only the beginning. Truffle Security's research is a reminder that a leaked key is vulnerable until someone rotates it. Showing teams the identity and access behind a credential is how you turn a notification into action," said Julien Chaumond, CTO at Hugging Face.
If you publish models or datasets on Hugging Face, you will receive an email when a verified secret is detected. Users can check huggingface.co/settings/notifications to confirm those alerts are still on, and rotate rather than delete any key that has been exposed.
Combined with TruffleHog Enterprise's ability to find and verify every instance of a leaked key, TruffleHog AWS Analyze adds access context teams need to remediate faster.
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TruffleHog AWS Analyze is available now as an add-on to TruffleHog Enterprise.
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Our scanners have verified 64,024 unique AWS key pairs across 431,875 public findings.
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Navi Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for efforts that the award committee said promoted international law as it comes under attack.
Her win is sure to be seen as a high-profile rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have both rejected the findings of the U.N. commission she led on Gaza. The leaders also have been highly critical of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. Pillay has worked at both.
Hours after the award was announced in Norway, the Trump administration imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal over investigations into the United States and its allies, including Israel.
Trump railed against the decision on Friday, claiming he deserved the prize and dismissing Pillay as “a liberal person who works at the United Nations who nobody has ever heard of.” He later said on social media that “she, very obviously, hates Israel.”
“The Nobel Peace Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are antidemocracy and really enemies of civilization,” Trump told a rally for Republican candidates in Syracuse, New York. “And we will not forget, Norway.”
On the 125th anniversary of the prize's inception, the Norwegian Nobel Committee sought “to remind the world that the rule of law, national and international, underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts nonviolently. Peace requires justice,” committee Chairman Jørgen Watne Frydnes said.
Judges “guard the thin red line between order and chaos,” and the world needs jurists “of courage, vision and determination, qualities that Navi Pillay demonstrates in her work on the bench.”
In places such as Israel and in apartheid-era South Africa, she and peers took on some of the world’s most painful and sensitive legal issues and most vulnerable populations.
Pillay, 85, received the news while attending a forum in Nuremberg, Germany, where the trials of Nazi war criminals helped lay the foundations of international law. She was in the same room where the trials were held when the prize was announced.
She said efforts to weaken international criminal justice “endanger the progress painstakingly made since Nuremberg, and they risk returning us to a world in which power, rather than law, determines whose suffering matters.”
Pillay chaired the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, which was created by the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council. The commission a year ago concluded Israel was responsible for genocide in Gaza with a specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.
Gaza was among Pillay’s first comments Friday after hearing she had won. “What’s happening there is genocide,” she said to applause.
The commission also found that the Israeli president, prime minister and former defense minister “have incited the commission of genocide.” Israel, which has refused to cooperate with the commission since it was established in 2021, has strenuously denied the accusations.
Pillay has repeatedly rebuffed critics who accused her of antisemitism or turning a blind eye to the Hamas attacks in Israel. Under her leadership, the commission also issued reports accusing Hamas of war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law during its Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
In an interview with The Associated Press last year, she recalled how she worked closely with some Jewish lawyers in the fight against apartheid in her native South Africa and was invited to Israel as the U.N. rights chief from 2008 to 2014.
Growing up under the harsh system of segregation influenced Pillay's interest in human rights and the law. Starting with Mandela’s presidency, South Africa’s government has openly compared the situation faced by nonwhite people during apartheid to the Palestinians’ plight.
“We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians,” Mandela said soon after apartheid ended.
The Nobel announcement came at another critical time for Gaza, just two days after the anniversary of the Hamas-led 2023 attack that killed about 1,200 people and sparked the war. Over 74,000 Palestinians have since been killed, with their territory devastated. Saturday marks a year since a fragile ceasefire took effect, while Israeli strikes continue.
Netanyahu wrote on X that the Nobel committee “has lost its moral compass” by awarding its highest honor to “a bigot who built her career around inventing and propagating blood libels against the one and only Jewish state.”
The award was announced less than three weeks before Israel’s election, in which Netanyahu is fighting to stay in power.
Pillay’s win and the new U.S. sanctions bring renewed attention to Trump’s ongoing feud with the International Criminal Court, where Pillay was a judge from 2003 to 2008.
In a video address, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration would “ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us.”
The sanctions block any assets the ICC as an institution has in U.S. jurisdictions and set a six-month timeline for American companies and individuals to wind down any business with the court.
The Nobel committee did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment following Rubio’s announcement.
Pillay currently serves as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice, the highest court of the United Nations, in the ongoing genocide case against Myanmar.
When countries do not have a representative on the court’s permanent, 15-judge panel, they can appoint an expert of their choice. Gambia, which launched the proceedings in 2019, selected Pillay when the country accused Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya minority group.
As a young lawyer in apartheid South Africa, part of Pillay’s work involved establishing key rights for political prisoners being held on Robben Island, which included Mandela, who later won the Nobel Peace Prize.
After apartheid ended, Mandela appointed Pillay to be the country’s first nonwhite woman to serve as a High Court judge.
Last year, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation.
Machado gave Trump her Nobel medal shortly after the United States ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro. But it was largely a symbolic gesture: The Nobel Committee has said the honor itself cannot be transferred.
In Trump’s second term, he has been outspoken about his desire for the Nobel, but has expressed doubts that the committee would ever award him the prize. After Pillay won Friday, Trump alleged without evidence that the prize committee was “crooked,” saying it's “just another sign of how Norway and all these others are ripping off our country.”
Four of this year's Nobels were announced earlier this week, in the categories of medicine, physics, chemistry and literature. The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced Monday.
The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million), whether for an individual, small group of laureates or organization.
Dazio reported from Berlin, and Keaten reported from Geneva. Associated Press journalists Gerald Imray in Cape Town, South Africa; Ali Swenson in New York; Cara Anna in Jerusalem; Molly Quell and Mike Corder in The Hague, Netherlands; Mark Lewis in Stavanger, Norway; and Collin Binkley in Washington contributed to this report.
AP Nobel Prizes: https://apnews.com/hub/nobel-prizes
This story has been corrected to reflect that this is the 125th anniversary of the peace prize’s inception, not the 125th prize.
South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, speaks at the Nuremberg Forum in Nuremberg, Germany, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, following the announcement that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. (Daniel Karmann/dpa via AP)
South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, sits at the Nuremberg Forum in Nuremberg, Germany, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, following the announcement that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. (Daniel Karmann/dpa via AP)
South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, speaks at the Nuremberg Forum in Nuremberg, Germany, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, following the announcement that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. (Daniel Karmann/dpa via AP)
South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, speaks at the Nuremberg Forum in Nuremberg, Germany, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, following the announcement that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. (Daniel Karmann/dpa via AP)
The Chairman of the Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, announces Navanethem Pillay as the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP)
FILE - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, answers journalist's questions during a press conference at the Geneva Press Club, in Geneva, Switzerland, July 31, 2014. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
FILE - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay, center, visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, in Jerusalem, Feb. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
FILE - Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks during a press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 18, 2012. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
FILE - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay, center, visits Al- Daraj Elementary Co-ed UNRWA school in Gaza City, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
The Chairman of the Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, announces the Nobel Peace Prize 2026 at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP)
The Chairman of the Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, announces Navanethem Pillay as the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP)
FILE - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights South African Navanethem Pillay prior to the 23rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, May 27, 2013. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
FILE - U.N. human rights chief Navanethem Pillay prior to the opening of a session of the Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 18, 2012. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
FILE - A Nobel diploma and medal are displayed, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP, File)
