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🔶 AWS IAM Roles Anywhere with MacOS Keychain
Create a test Certificate Authority, configure AWS IAM Roles Anywhere and test access to AWS authenticating with a certificate in MacOS Keychain.
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🔶 Tales from the cloud trenches: Amazon ECS is the new EC2 for crypto mining
Two attacks in an AWS environment that led to crypto mining and data exfiltration.
https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/tales-from-the-cloud-trenches-ecs-crypto-mining/
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🔷 Automating Managed Identity Token Extraction in Azure Container Registries
The «Tasks» functionality can be abused by attackers to generate tokens for any Managed Identities that are attached to the ACR.
https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/automating-managed-identity-token-extraction-in-azure-container-registries/
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🔷 Hunting M365 Invaders: Blue Team's Guide to Initial Access Vectors
Discover insights from the Splunk Threat Research Team on Microsoft 365 threat detection, focusing on data source analysis and effective methods for hunting initial access threats.
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/hunting-m365-invaders-blue-team-s-guide-to-initial-access-vectors.html
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🔶 Best Practices to help secure your container image build pipeline by using AWS Signer
AWS Signer is a fully managed code-signing service to help ensure the trust and integrity of your code. It helps you verify that the code comes from a trusted source and that an unauthorized party has not accessed it.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/best-practices-to-help-secure-your-container-image-build-pipeline-by-using-aws-signer/
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🔴 Exploiting Monitoring and Service Mesh Configurations in GKE to Gain Unauthorized Access
The article exposes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Kubernetes Engine, involving misuse of FluentBit and Anthos Service Mesh, allowing attackers to gain full cluster control.
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/google-kubernetes-engine-privilege-escalation-fluentbit-anthos/
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🔴 Why did 1 GitHub Repo leak 5,000 Live GCP Keys?
More GCP Keys leaked on GitHub in 2022 than any other key type. Why? Turns out one repository played a major role.
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/why-did-1-github-repo-leak-5000-live-gcp-keys/
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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
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🔷 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/
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🔶 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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🔶 AWS Account Security Onboarding Mind Map
A succinct and structured mind map that could act like a checklist when onboarding new AWS Accounts to an existing AWS Organization.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-account-security-onboarding-mind-map-artem-marusov-zrpre/
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🔶 Automate Cedar policy validation with AWS developer tools
How to use developer tools on AWS to implement a build pipeline that validates the Cedar policy files against a schema and runs a suite of tests to isolate the Cedar policy logic.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/automate-cedar-policy-validation-with-aws-developer-tools/
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🔶 Fuzzing and Bypassing the AWS WAF
The Sysdig Threat Research Team discovered techniques that allowed the AWS WAF to be bypassed using a specialized DOM event.
https://sysdig.com/blog/fuzzing-and-bypassing-the-aws-waf/
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🔶 Deep dive into AWS CloudShell
AWS CloudShell got a new capability in January 2024: running Docker containers.
https://awsteele.com/blog/2024/01/11/deep-dive-into-aws-cloudshell.html
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🔶 Setting secure AWS defaults and avoiding misconfigurations
Wiz cloud security researcher, Scott Piper, suggests measures organizations can adopt to ensure secure defaults on AWS and improve their security posture.
https://www.wiz.io/blog/how-to-set-secure-defaults-on-aws
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🔶 Deep dive into the new Amazon EKS Cluster Access Management features
Post deep diving into the newly released Amazon EKS cluster access management features, as well as discussing threat detection opportunities based on the newly available CloudTrail events associated with this feature.
https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/eks-cluster-access-management-deep-dive/
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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/
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🔶 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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