In AWS, SSM is often preinstalled on popular Amazon Machine Images, leading to a high possibility that many existing EC2 instances are running the SSM agent.

Threat actors have been observed using Amazon Web Services (AWS) 's System Manager (SSM) agent as a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) on Linux and Windows machines. According to a new security report ...

The latest news about SSM AgentAmazon's AWS SSM agent can be used as post-exploitation RAT malware Researchers have discovered a new post-exploitation technique in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that ...

AWS Systems Manager is a tool that can perform various operational tasks across AWS resources with an agent component called SSM Agent.

Any external host can be connected to ECS control plane by running the SSM and ECS agents. This is simpler and non-intrusive than deploying a Kubernetes cluster and attaching that to Anthos or Arc.