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🔴 Detect transitive access to sensitive Google Cloud resources
If a user can successfully authenticate as a service account, they gain access to all the IAM permissions associated with that account.
https://p0.dev/blog/transitive-access-gcp
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🔶 Securing attacks targeted at user or kernel level for customer X with KubeArmor & AWS Bottlerock
The article outlines how KubeArmor and AWS Bottlerocket enhance security in Kubernetes deployments. KubeArmor aids in blocking unwanted binaries and applying granular controls at the container level, while AWS Bottlerocket fortifies host and worker nodes.
https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/10/26/securing-attacks-targeted-at-user-or-kernel-level-for-customer-x-with-kubearmor-aws-bottlerocket/
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🔴 Cloud CISO Perspectives: How boards can help cyber-crisis communications
Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables talks about the important (and often undervalued) organizational skill of crisis communications.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-how-boards-can-help-cyber-crisis-communications/
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🔷 Everything you need to know about the Microsoft Graph Activity Logs
An introduction on the new Graph APIs that can help incident responders close some visibility gaps.
https://invictus-ir.medium.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-microsoftgraphactivitylogs-5bd7c158dc1c
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🔶 What Can Go Wrong When an EC2 Instance is Exposed to SSRF
New CNAPPgoat scenario makes experimentation easy by triggering calls to AWS service from an EC2 instance exposed to SSRF.
https://ermetic.com/blog/cloud/exfiltrated-signed-delivered-what-can-go-wrong-when-an-amazon-elastic-compute-cloud-ec2-instance-is-exposed-to-ssrf/
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🔷 Phishing for Primary Refresh Tokens and Windows Hello keys
Post describing new techniques to phish for Primary Refresh Tokens, and in some scenarios also deploy passwordless credentials that comply with even the strictest MFA policies.
https://dirkjanm.io/phishing-for-microsoft-entra-primary-refresh-tokens/
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🔶 Attacking AWS Cognito with Pacu
Common problems in AWS Cognito security, as seen in client environments, which would benefit from automated scanning and exploitation.
https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/attacking-aws-cognito-with-pacu-p1/
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🔶 Meeting the FedRAMP FIPS 140-2 requirement on AWS
Some ideas for implementing encryption that uses FIPS modules on AWS.
https://alsmola.medium.com/meeting-the-fedramp-fips-140-2-requirement-on-aws-e9886ba3f66b
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🔶 5 things you may not know about AWS IAM
SCPs are not inherited like you would expect them to be, resource policies can give permissions by themselves, NotPrincipal evaluation may not do what you expect, a permission can be granted by a combination of statements, KMS grants are like detached resource policy statements.
https://blog.revolve.team/2023/09/21/5-things-about-aws-iam/
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🔷 Defending new vectors: Threat actors attempt SQL Server to cloud lateral movement
Microsoft's analysis of an attempt to steal the cloud identity in a SQL Server instance for lateral movement highlights the importance of securing cloud identities and implementing least privilege practices when deploying cloud-based and on-premises solutions.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/10/03/defending-new-vectors-threat-actors-attempt-sql-server-to-cloud-lateral-movement/
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🔶 Deploy AWS WAF faster with Security Automations
You can now deploy AWS WAF managed rules as part of the Security Automations for AWS WAF solution.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/deploy-aws-managed-rules-using-security-automations-for-aws-waf/
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🔶 Enable external pipeline deployments to AWS Cloud by using IAM Roles Anywhere
Post walking through the steps on how to obtain AWS temporary credentials for your external CI/CD pipelines by using IAM Roles Anywhere and an on-premises hosted server running Azure DevOps Services.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/enable-external-pipeline-deployments-to-aws-cloud-by-using-iam-roles-anywhere/
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🔶 AWS's Hidden Threat: AMBERSQUID Cloud-Native Cryptojacking Operation
The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has uncovered a novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation which they've named AMBERSQUID. This operation leverages AWS services not commonly used by attackers, such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker.
https://sysdig.com/blog/ambersquid/
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🔶🔷🔴 How to Rotate Leaked API Keys
A collection of API key rotation tutorials for AWS, GCP, GitHub , and more.
https://howtorotate.com/docs/introduction/getting-started/
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🔷 38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
Wiz Research found a data exposure incident on Microsoft's AI GitHub repository, including over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages - all caused by one misconfigured SAS token.
https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-accidentally-exposed-by-microsoft-ai-researchers
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🔶 Fargate and Cribl (Stream): How We Got It Working
The article discusses deploying Cribl using AWS Fargate to manage log data more effectively, outlining an approach to setting up this infrastructure.
https://floqast.com/engineering-blog/post/fargate-and-cribl-stream-how-we-got-it-working/
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🔷 Exploring the Dark Side of Package Files and Storage Account Abuse
How attackers can abuse the Storage Account's connection string to gain unauthorized access to the Function Apps.
https://3xpl01tc0d3r.blogspot.com/2023/10/exploring-dark-side-of-package-files.html
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🔶 Terraform AWS Provider: Everything you need to know about Multi-Account Authentication and Configuration
Post covering multiple options available to configure the authentication between Terraform and AWS.
https://hector-reyesaleman.medium.com/terraform-aws-provider-everything-you-need-to-know-about-multi-account-authentication-and-f2343a4afd4b
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🔶 Adopt Open ID Connect (OIDC) in Terraform for secure multi-account CI/CD to AWS
Deploy to AWS with Terraform and GitHub Actions using Open ID Connect (OIDC) and IAM AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity. Say goodbye to IAM users and long-lived credentials.
https://hedrange.com/2023/10/07/adopt-open-id-connect-oidc-in-terraform-for-secure-multi-account-ci-cd-to-aws/
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🔶 Users of Telegram, AWS, and Alibaba Cloud targeted in latest supply chain attack
Throughout September 2023, an attacker executed a targeted campaign via Pypi to draw developers using Alibaba cloud services, AWS, and Telegram to their malicious packages.
https://checkmarx.com/blog/users-of-telegram-aws-and-alibaba-cloud-targeted-in-latest-supply-chain-attack/
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🔴 Investigate Service Account Key Origins and Usage with Best Practices
Deep dive on investigating service account key origins and usage, including analyzing authentication patterns, monitoring authentication events, and examining service account impersonation and key usage.
https://p0.dev/blog/service-account-key-origins
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🔶 Following attackers' (Cloud)trail in AWS: Methodology and findings in the wild
Datadog's methodology to proactively identify malicious activity by investigating logs in AWS Cloudtrail.
https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/following-attackers-trail-in-aws-methodology-findings-in-the-wild/
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🔶 Security Hub gives me imposter syndrome
Chris Farris' take on AWS Security Hub, what's wrong, what's good, and why it's a dangerous service for smaller companies.
https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/securityhub-2023/
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🔶 Introduction to AWS Attribute-Based Access Control
The article provides an introduction to Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in AWS. It explains how ABAC differs from traditional Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and how to use tags to implement ABAC.
https://research.nccgroup.com/2023/10/02/introduction-to-aws-attribute-based-access-control/
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🔶 terraform-aws-api-gateway
Terraform module to create Route53 resource on AWS for create api gateway with its basic elements.
https://github.com/clouddrove/terraform-aws-api-gateway
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🔶 Automate Lambda code signing with Amazon CodeCatalyst and AWS Signer
How to use Amazon CodeCatalyst with AWS Signer to fully manage the code signing process to ensure the trust and integrity of code assets.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/devops/automate-lambda-code-signing-with-amazon-codecatalyst-and-aws-signer/
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🔶 Remote analysis on cloud object-storage
The journey of making the volatility3 framework compatible with S3 object-storage to perform memory analysis over the network.
https://www.forensicxlab.com/posts/vols3/
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🔴 Maintaining persistence via Shared sessions on Cloud Workstations
When an owner initiates a session and performs actions like gcloud auth login, the session state persists, shared across multiple users accessing the workstation through the same URL. This means that any user with access to the workstation can view and interact with the session artifacts created by the owner.
https://saransh-rana.gitbook.io/aboutme/maintaining-persistence-via-shared-sessions-on-cloud-workstations
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🔷 Ransomware Strikes Azure Storage: Are You Ready?
Post discussing Azure Storage Accounts, pointing out forensic artifacts in Azure that can help investigate ransomware attacks, and offering methods for attack detection.
https://www.mitiga.io/blog/ransomware-strikes-azure-storage-are-you-ready
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🔴 Light the way ahead: Platform Engineering, Golden Paths, and the power of self-service
What is a Golden Path? Who is a Golden Path for? When to build Golden Paths?
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/golden-paths-for-engineering-execution-consistency/
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