if the provider gets popped doesn't the binary get popped too? then simply use an LLM to reverse engineer the binary and get the key?
If its a targeted attack, they'll know and probably "crack" it. If its just data trawling, you might get owned one day if they bother, but likely the env `AWS_KEY=encrypted_abc` looks reasonably close to `AWS_KEY=unencrypted_abc` and any API key probing will just look like it got rotated already.
I think siblings are correct that the more widespread this is, the less effective once every dump is run through a "also look for keys in the binary" step.