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The Quiet Takeover: How Your Forgotten Cloud Resources End Up Selling Slot Machines

Picture a global telecom company. Three years ago, a marketing team launched a campaign microsite on a cloud platform and pointed a company hostname at it. The campaign ended and the team deleted the app. Nobody deleted the DNS record. A few years ago, that mistake could sit there for a decade. No one was looking. Today, attackers run automated sweeps across millions of domains, resolving every DNS record and checking whether the resource behind it still exists.