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🔴 Introducing Cloud SQL IAM group authentication
New IAM groups authentication in Cloud SQL simplifies granting/revoking access to database objects at scale.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing-cloud-sql-iam-group-authentication/
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🔶 Governance at scale: Enforce permissions and compliance by using policy as code
How to automate Config and Control Tower checks.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/governance-at-scale-enforce-permissions-and-compliance-by-using-policy-as-code/
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🔶 Quick Tip: Minimizing Terraformed SCPs
How to tackle character limits in SCPs.
https://ramimac.me/terraform-minimized-scps
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🔶 AWS Security Services Best Practices
Best practices for configuring AWS security services. From the AWS team.
https://aws.github.io/aws-security-services-best-practices/
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🔴 Unauthenticated Access to GCP Dataproc Can Lead to Data Leak
A lack of security controls of the underlying Open Source Software (OSS) managed solution allows an attacker with knowledge of the Dataproc IP address to access it without any authentication.
https://orca.security/resources/blog/unauthenticated-access-to-google-cloud-dataproc/
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🔴 DevSecOps and CI/CD using Google Cloud Built-in Services
How to build a secure CI/CD pipeline using Google Cloud's built-in services using Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, Binary Authorization and GKE.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/devsecops-and-cicd-using-google-cloud-built-in-services
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🔴 Exploring a Critical Risk in Google Workspace's Domain-Wide Delegation Feature
A security risk discovered in the Google Cloud Platform domain-wide delegation feature allows a user to generate an access token to Google Workspace, granting unauthorized access to data and other key tools.
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/critical-risk-in-google-workspace-delegation-feature/
#gcp
🔶 How fast is CloudTrail today? Investigating CloudTrail delays using Athena
Investigating how long CloudTrail takes to deliver events in 2023.
https://tracebit.com/blog/2023/11/how-fast-is-cloudtrail-today-investigating-cloudtrail-delays-using-athena/
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🔴 Pwning Cloud Contexts, The Endgame
Slides from a Black Hat MEA 2023 talk discussing how a GitHub token led to the compromise of an entire GCP organization.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sVZohEgGKDkgwgVNzquNzSzKdLDMOFgAiiR78kcgBAw/edit#slide=id.g29a3b4d3924_0_137
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🔷 All the Small Things: Azure CLI Leakage and Problematic Usage Patterns
Post discussing the unintentional leakage of Azure Application Variables in GitHub build logs due to Azure CLI's default behavior.
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/prisma-cloud/secrets-leakage-user-error-azure-cli/
#azure
🔴 Enhancing Cybersecurity with Security Command Center's Attack Path Simulations and Attack Exposure Scoring
Security Command Center (SCC) recently introduced two new features: Attack Path Simulation (APS) and Attack Exposure Scoring (AES).
https://medium.com/google-cloud/enhancing-cybersecurity-with-security-command-centers-attack-path-simulation-and-attack-path-46c527cd4927
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🔶 Reversing AWS IAM unique IDs
How to identify the ARN of a user/role from AWS IAM unique IDs, often seen in CloudTrail logs.
https://awsteele.com/blog/2023/11/19/reversing-aws-iam-unique-ids.html
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🔶 Building sensitive data remediation workflows in multi-account AWS environments
A solution that provides you with visibility into sensitive data residing across a fleet of AWS accounts through a ChatOps-style notification mechanism using Microsoft Teams, which also provides contextual information needed to conduct security investigations.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/building-sensitive-data-remediation-workflows-in-multi-account-aws-environments/
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🔶 Lambda Extensions: Exploring Misuse Scenarios and Stratus Red Team Module Development
Post analyzing a well-known attack vector and then showing how to build a module for Stratus Red Team, a self-contained binary we can use to detonate offensive attack techniques against a live cloud environment easily.
https://awstip.com/lambda-extensions-exploring-misuse-scenarios-and-stratus-red-team-module-development-b63c5a73491a
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🔶 AWSAttacks
This repo contains IOC, malware and malware analysis associated with AWS cloud. You can also refer to this blog post.
https://github.com/unknownhad/AWSAttacks
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🔴 Migrate from service account keys
An article that describes the process for migrating from service account keys to more secure authentication methods.
https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/migrate-from-service-account-keys
#gcp
🔷 Securing AD CS: Microsoft Defender for Identity's Sensor Unveiled
Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is commonly used in Active Directory environments to manage Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and it plays a critical role in instrumenting digital certificates.
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/securing-ad-cs-microsoft-defender-for-identity-s-sensor-unveiled/ba-p/3980265
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🔶🔷🔴 Introducing CloudSecGPT: Your Go-To AI for Cloud Security Insights
CloudSecGPT is a custom-built generative AI model that specializes in cloud security.
https://blog.marcolancini.it/2023/blog-cloudsecgpt/
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🔶 Cloud services as exfiltration mechanisms
This article outlines how as an adversary you can use an AWS service to exfiltrate data.
https://airwalkreply.com/cloud-services-as-exfiltration-mechanisms
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🔶 Zonal autoshift - Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues
A new capability of Route 53 Application Recovery Controller that you can enable to automatically and safely shift your workload's traffic away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that Availability Zone and shift it back once the failure is resolved.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/zonal-autoshift-automatically-shift-your-traffic-away-from-availability-zones-when-we-detect-potential-issues/
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🔷 Microsoft Incident Response lessons on preventing cloud identity compromise
Different scenarios involving misconfigured hybrid identity setups that could lead to compromise of Microsoft Entra ID.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/05/microsoft-incident-response-lessons-on-preventing-cloud-identity-compromise/
#azure
🔶 Avoid accidental exposure of authenticated Amazon API Gateway resources
The article advises securing Amazon API Gateway by setting default authorizers and applying resource policies for IAM authentication, to prevent accidental exposure and enhance security through defense in depth.
https://www.wolfe.id.au/2023/11/12/avoid-accidental-exposure-of-authenticated-amazon-api-gateway-resources/
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🔶 Deep dive into the new Amazon EKS Pod Identity feature
Earlier this week, AWS released a new feature, EKS Pod Identity, that aims to simplify granting AWS access to pods running in an EKS cluster. This post deep-dives into how this feature works, some elements that make it unique, and why you might consider using it.
https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/eks-pod-identity-deep-dive/
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🔶 Preventing Accidental Internet-Exposure of AWS Resources
Many AWS customers have suffered breaches due to exposing resources to the Internet by accident. This three-part series walks through different ways to mitigate that risk.
https://kevinhock.github.io/2023/11/26/preventing-accidental-internet-exposure-of-aws-resources-part-1-vpc.html
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🔶 How to use multiple instances of AWS IAM Identity Center
You can now have two types of IAM Identity Center instances: organization instances and account instances.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-use-multiple-instances-of-aws-iam-identity-center/
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🔶 Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Require services to be created only within expected networks
How to use preventative controls to help ensure that your resources are deployed within your VPC, so that you can effectively enforce the network perimeter controls.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/establishing-a-data-perimeter-on-aws-require-services-to-be-created-only-within-expected-networks/
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🔷 (Ab)using the Microsoft Identity Platform: Exploring Azure AD Token Caching
Presentation examining how JSON Web Token (JWT) caching works in corporate settings with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) integration, including Azure AD Joined and Hybrid environments.
https://github.com/FuzzySecurity/SANS-HackFest-2023/blob/main/SANS_HackFest23-Abusing_The-Microsoft-Identity-Platform.pdf
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🔷 Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE).
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/public-preview-confidential-containers-on-aks/ba-p/3980871
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🔶🔷🔴 State of Cloud Security
Datadog analyzed data from thousands of organizations to understand the latest trends in cloud security posture.
https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-cloud-security/
#aws #azure #gcp