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🔷 The Attackers Guide to Azure AD Conditional Access
Post showing why it is important to understand the Conditional Access policy evaluation process and how to find and exploit flaws in a policy design.
https://danielchronlund.com/2022/01/07/the-attackers-guide-to-azure-ad-conditional-access/
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🔶 New EKS Access Management and Pod Identity features: a security analysis
The Wiz research team unpacks the security implications of the new EKS access and identity management features and recommends best practices when using them.
https://www.wiz.io/blog/eks-cluster-access-management-and-pod-identity-security-recommendations
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🔷 Azure HDInsight Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
The Orca Security Research Pod discovered three vulnerabilities in Azure HDInsight that could lead to privilege escalation and denial of service.
https://orca.security/resources/blog/azure-hd-insight-vulnerabilities-privilege-escalation/
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🔴 Announcing general availability of Custom Org Policy to help tailor resource guardrails with confidence
Custom Organization Policies is now generally available. The powerful new extension to Org Policies can create granular resource policies to address cloud governance requirements.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-custom-org-policy-to-help-tailor-resource-guardrails-with-confidence/
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🔷 Azure Arc as persistence technique: stealthier than one would think on Linux servers
Post analyzing how using Azure Arc as a persistence vector would work, and what kind of logs it would generate on the host.
https://safecontrols.blog/2023/10/25/azure-arc-as-persistence-technique-stealthier-than-one-would-think-on-linux-servers/
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🔶 The curious case of DangerDev@protonmail.me
An AWS incident response story, including the techniques used by the threat actor.
https://www.invictus-ir.com/news/the-curious-case-of-dangerdev-protonmail-me
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🔴 Sys:All Google Kubernetes Engine Risk
The Orca Research Pod has discovered a risk in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that would allow an attacker with any Google account to take over a Kubernetes cluster. You can also read the follow up blog post.
https://orca.security/resources/blog/sys-all-google-kubernetes-engine-risk/
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🔷 Azure Attack Paths
Post shedding some light on known attack paths in an Azure environment.
https://cloudbrothers.info/en/azure-attack-paths/
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🔷 Azure Logs: Breaking Through the Cloud Cover
Azure Monitor Activity Logs can be difficult to interpret. This blog offers insights into these logs where you'll find an invaluable reference tool and guide designed to demystify Azure's logging complexities.
https://permiso.io/blog/azure-logs-breaking-through-the-cloud-cover
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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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🔶🔷🔴 The Nine Lives of Commando Cat: Analysing a Novel Malware Campaign Targeting Docker
Commando Cat is a novel cryptojacking campaign exploiting Docker for Initial Access. The campaign deploys a credential stealer payload, targeting Cloud Service Provider credentials (AWS, GCP, Azure).
https://www.cadosecurity.com/the-nine-lives-of-commando-cat-analysing-a-novel-malware-campaign-targeting-docker/
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🔶 Conditional Love for AWS Metadata Enumeration
How would you feel if an attacker could read your AWS resource tags? Turns out they can!
https://blog.plerion.com/conditional-love-for-aws-metadata-enumeration/
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🔶 CIEM Part 3: Mastering privilege management for developers
How to determine the right point in time to harden a role which results in guidance on where to invest your time.
https://www.robertdemeyer.com/post/ciem-part-3-mastering-privilege-management-for-developers
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🔶 CIEM Part 2: Measure risk probability in IAM
Post that tries to classify IAM Roles or IAM User candidates for an attack.
https://www.robertdemeyer.com/post/ciem-part-2-measure-risk-probability-in-iam
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🔴 GKE/Gmail vulnerability: notes and tips
Security researchers have discovered a new Google Kubernetes Engine misconfiguration that could allow attackers with a basic Gmail account to take control of a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster.
https://expel.com/blog/gke-gmail-vulnerability-notes-and-tips/
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🔶 How Zurich Insurance Group built their Scalable Account Vending process using AWS Account Factory for Terraform
By adopting AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform, Zurich were able to achieve the scalability, resilience and performance to support provisioning of a projected 3000+ accounts.
https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/architecture/how-zurich-insurance-group-built-their-scalable-account-vending-process-using-aws-account-factory-for-terraform/
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🔶 How least privilege leads to a false sense of security
A view on least privilege which proposes its application misleads us in a wrong sense of security.
https://www.robertdemeyer.com/post/ciem-part-1-how-least-privilege-leads-to-a-false-sense-of-security
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🔴 Google Cloud Incident Response Cheat Sheet
A visual lifeline designed to equip you with the crucial steps and resources needed to navigate a GCP security incident.
https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-incident-response-cheat-sheet-dfde9054ac16
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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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