🔴 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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🔶 The Cloud Hunting Games

A new CTF by Wiz.

https://www.cloudhuntinggames.com/

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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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🔶 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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🔴 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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🔶 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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🔶 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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🔶 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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🔶 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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🔶 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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🔶 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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🔶 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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🔴 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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🔴 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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🔴 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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🔶 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/

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔴 Safer automated deployments with new Cloud Deploy features

New automations in the Cloud Deploy continuous delivery platform help keep production environments reliable and up-to-date.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/new-cloud-deploy-features-for-automated-deployments/

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🔶 boto3-refresh-session

A simple Python package for refreshing AWS temporary credentials in boto3 automatically.

https://github.com/michaelthomasletts/boto3-refresh-session

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