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🔶 How to set up and track SLAs for resolving Security Hub findings
Step-by-step instructions for tracking Security Hub findings in each severity category against service-level agreements (SLAs) through visual dashboards.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-set-up-and-track-slas-for-resolving-security-hub-findings/
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🔴 Removing GitHub PATs and Private Keys From Google Cloud: Extending Token Server to Google Cloud
This article introduces the technologies, challenges, and solutions behind extending Token Server and migrating workloads on Google Cloud to use short-lived credentials.
https://engineering.mercari.com/en/blog/entry/20241203-token-server-google-cloud/
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🔴 Hunting for Bucket Traversals in Google's Client Libraries
A bucket traversal vulnerability arises when an application mishandles user input while interacting with cloud storage, allowing unauthorized access to storage objects.
https://jdomeracki.github.io/2025/05/04/hunting_for_bucket_traversals/
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🔶 Root in prod: The most important security analysis you will never do on your AWS accounts
This article outlines steps for identifying AWS accounts, determining which ones are truly production, and analyzing access levels, including finding users and roles with AdministratorAccess.
https://www.plerion.com/blog/root-in-prod
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🔶 Implementing safety guardrails for applications using Amazon SageMaker
Post explaining guardrail implementation strategies.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/implementing-safety-guardrails-for-applications-using-amazon-sagemaker/
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👩💻 Does AZNFS SUID your needs? A Path to Root Privilege Escalation on Azure AI and HPC
An Azure utility for mounting Azure Storage that comes preinstalled on Azure HPC/AI images allowed an unprivileged user on a Linux machine with this utility installed to escalate their privileges to root.
https://www.varonis.com/blog/aznfs-root-privilege-escalation-on-azure
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🔶 Use an Amazon Bedrock powered chatbot with Amazon Security Lake to help investigate incidents
How to deploy a security chatbot with a GUI and a serverless backend powered by an Amazon Bedrock agent that incorporates existing playbooks to investigate or respond to a security event.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/use-an-amazon-bedrock-powered-chatbot-with-amazon-security-lake-to-help-investigate-incidents/
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🔶 Configuring Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Amazon Q CLI
This post will walk you through everything you need to know to get Amazon Q CLI up and running to use MCP.
https://blog.beachgeek.co.uk/getting-started-mcp-amazon-q-cli/
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🔶 The Cloud Hunting Games
A new CTF by Wiz.
https://www.cloudhuntinggames.com/
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🔴 Tag Your Way In: New Privilege Escalation Technique in GCP
This post introduces a novel privilege escalation technique in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that exploits IAM Conditions in combination with tagBindings.
https://www.mitiga.io/blog/tag-your-way-in-new-privilege-escalation-technique-in-gcp
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🔶 Shadow Roles: AWS Defaults Can Open the Door to Service Takeover
Post walking through multiple real-world scenarios, including how a malicious Hugging Face model can escalate privileges, how limited Glue access can impact other services, and how a single default role can ultimately lead to full control of an AWS account.
https://www.aquasec.com/blog/shadow-roles-aws-defaults-lead-to-service-takeover/
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🔶 How to help prevent hotlinking using referer checking, AWS WAF, and Amazon CloudFront
How to help prevent hotlinking by using header inspection in AWS WAF, while still taking advantage of the improved user experience from a CDN such as CloudFront.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-by-using-aws-waf-amazon-cloudfront-and-referer-checking/
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👩💻 Understanding the threat landscape for Kubernetes and containerized assets
Microsoft released and updated the threat matrix for Kubernetes, an active knowledge base for security threats that target Kubernetes clusters, to systematically map the attack surface of Kubernetes.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/23/understanding-the-threat-landscape-for-kubernetes-and-containerized-assets/
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🔶 Secure Cross-Account Access is Tricky. Four Common Dangerous Misconceptions
Post diving into cross-account trust policies, explaining four major misconceptions repeatedly seen in organizations, which often lead to the creation of cross-account trust paths from less secure accounts to more sensitive accounts.
https://www.token.security/blog/secure-cross-account-access-is-tricky-four-common-dangerous-misconceptions
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🔴 Introducing stronger default Org Policies for our customers
Google Cloud is releasing an updated and stronger set of security defaults that can be implemented with Organizational Policies.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-stronger-default-org-policies-for-our-customers/
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🔴 Mark Your Calendar: APT41 Innovative Tactics
Post which analyzes the malware delivery methods, technical details of the malware attack chain, discuss other recent APT41 activities, and share indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help security practitioners defend against similar attacks.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/apt41-innovative-tactics/
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👩💻 Microsoft extends Zero Trust to secure the agentic workforce
Microsoft introduced Microsoft Entra Agent ID, which extends identity management and access capabilities to AI agents.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/19/microsoft-extends-zero-trust-to-secure-the-agentic-workforce/
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🔶 PowerUserAccess vs. AdministratorAccess from an attacker's perspective
The article highlights the dangers of using the AWS managed policy PowerUserAccess in complex environments by sharing an attacker's perspective on the matter.
https://www.offensai.com/blog/poweruseraccess-vs-administratoraccess-from-an-attacker-perspective
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🔶 TrailAlerts
TrailAlerts is a AWS-native, serverless cloud-detection tool that lets you define simple rules as code and get rich alerts about events in AWS.
https://github.com/adanalvarez/TrailAlerts
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🔶 AI lifecycle risk management: ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for AI governance
Post explaining how ISO/IEC 42001 enables effective AI governance, review the risk management requirements, and explore how you can use threat modeling as a practical technique to meet those expectations.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/ai-lifecycle-risk-management-iso-iec-420012023-for-ai-governance/
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🔶 Tales from the cloud trenches: The Attacker doth persist too much
A cloud attack targeting Amazon SES and persistence via AWS Lambda, AWS IAM Identity Center and AWS IAM.
https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/tales-from-the-cloud-trenches-the-attacker-doth-persist-too-much/
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🔴 What's new in IAM, Access Risk, and Cloud Governance
At Google Cloud Next, Google announced multiple new capabilities in their IAM, Access Risk, and Cloud Governance portfolio, including: IAM, Access Risk products including VPC Service Controls, Context-Aware Access and Identity Threat Detection and Response, Cloud Governance with Organization Policy Service, and Resource Management.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/whats-new-in-iam-access-risk-and-cloud-governance/
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🔶 S3 bucket name squatting
Post sharing findings on four AWS services - Amazon Athena, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Config - and the implications of bucket name squatting.
https://www.reply.com/spike-reply/en/blog/s3-bucket-name-squatting
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👩💻 The Invisible Enemy: Unmasking Microsoft 365's Logging Blind Spots
Blog dissecting the limitations of Microsoft's activity logs, walking through real-world simulations using the msInvader tool, and highlighting what gets seen and what silently slips through the cracks.
https://www.abstract.security/blog/the-invisible-enemy-unmasking-microsoft-365s-logging-blind-spots
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🔶 Preventing Cross-Service Confused Deputy Attacks in AWS ELB Logging
Post highlighting the inconsistency in AWS services regarding S3 bucket permissions and encryption methods.
https://tomclancy.me/2025/04/24/preventing-cross-service-confused-deputy-attacks-in-aws-elb-logging.html
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🔶 AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk
The «Account Assessment for AWS Organizations» tool, designed to audit resource-based policies for risky cross-account access, ironically introduced cross-account privilege escalation risks due to flawed deployment instructions.
https://www.token.security/blog/aws-built-a-security-tool-it-introduced-a-security-risk
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🔴 MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data
Learn how MCP Toolbox for Databases can help you deliver secure and standardized ways to have your agents communicate with one another and access enterprise data.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/mcp-toolbox-for-databases-now-supports-model-context-protocol/
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🔶🔷🔴 Threat Modelling Cloud Service Providers in 2025
With the US Government acting in an erratic and hostile manner towards its traditional allies, it makes sense for companies not typically subject to US Jurisdiction to reconsider their threat models when using the big three cloud providers. All of them are US-based companies, and all three conduct a substantial amount of business with the US Government.
https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/threat-model-2025/
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🔶 DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies. But is that a good idea?
While it simplifies cross-account access to DynamoDB tables, eliminating the need to assume IAM roles. It still begs the question: Is cross-account data access even a good idea?
https://theburningmonk.com/2024/03/dynamodb-now-supports-resource-based-policies-but-is-that-a-good-idea/
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👩💻 Microsoft Copilot for Security: General Availability details
Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Copilot for Security (Copilot) on April 1st.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-copilot-blog/microsoft-copilot-for-security-general-availability-details/ba-p/4079970
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