🔷 Azure AD is Becoming Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft is rebranding Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-azure-ad-blog/azure-ad-is-becoming-microsoft-entra-id/ba-p/2520436

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🔶 How to Monitor AWS IAM Root Users at Scale: Best Practices

CloudYali provides insights into best practices and effective strategies for managing IAM users at scale. The article delves into IAM user monitoring, emphasising the importance of the root user, and highlighting essential IAM security practices. It also covers automation of IAM Credential Report generation at scale, streamlining the collection of IAM user information and facilitating more efficient monitoring and management for cloud teams.

https://www.cloudyali.io/blogs/how-to-monitor-aws-iam-root-users-at-scale-best-practices?utm_source=tldrsec.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tl-dr-sec-191-badzure-detection-response-pipelines-18k-subscribers

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🔴 Bad.Build: PE & RCE Vulnerabilities in Google Cloud Build

The Orca Research Pod discovered Bad.Build, a vulnerability in the Google Cloud Build service that enables attackers to escalate privileges and gain unauthorized access to code repositories and images in Artifact Registry.

https://orca.security/resources/blog/bad-build-google-cloud-build-potential-supply-chain-attack-vulnerability/

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🔶 Abusing Amazon VPC CNI plugin for Kubernetes

The article discusses a security vulnerability in the Amazon VPC CNI plugin, used by Amazon EKS. The flaw allows an attacker to move laterally to other VPCs in the AWS account.

https://www.elttam.com/blog/amazon-vpc-cni/

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🔶 Orca Security's journey to a petabyte-scale data lake with Apache Iceberg and AWS Analytics

Orca Security shares their experience in building a petabyte-scale data lake using Apache Iceberg and AWS services.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/big-data/orca-securitys-journey-to-a-petabyte-scale-data-lake-with-apache-iceberg-and-aws-analytics/

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🔶 How to get rid of AWS access keys - Part 3: Replacing the authentication

Post discussing alternative solutions to using access keys.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-aws-access-keys-part-3

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🔶 Refuting AWS Chain Attack - Digging Deeper into EKS Zero Day claims

An analysis of the findings published by a security researcher last month, claiming to have uncovered zero days in thousands of EKS cluster.

https://kloudle.com/blog/refuting-aws-chain-attack-digging-deeper-into-eks-zero-days-claim/

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🔶 No keys attached: Exploring GitHub-to-AWS keyless authentication flaws

While popular, GitHub-to-AWS keyless authentication mechanisms can be insecurely configured.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/exploring-github-to-aws-keyless-authentication-flaws/

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🔶 Swiping right on the AWS WAF CAPTCHA challenge

Post walking through a methodology for beating the AWS WAF CAPTCHA challenges programmatically.

https://onecloudplease.com/blog/swiping-right-on-the-aws-waf-captcha-challenge

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🔶🔷🔴 Hijacking Cloud CI/CD Systems for Fun and Profit

This research details a new technique that can be used by threat actors for supply chain attacks on open-source repositories using GCP, Azure and AWS.

https://divyanshu-mehta.gitbook.io/researchs/hijacking-cloud-ci-cd-systems-for-fun-and-profit

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🔶AWS Networking Concepts

A mind map to link together all the different networking-related concepts from AWS.

https://miparnisariblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/29/aws-networking-concepts/

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🔶 Automated First-Response in AWS using Sigma and Athena

Can Sigma rules provide first-response capabilities in a post-compromised AWS environment?

https://invictus-ir.medium.com/automated-first-response-in-aws-using-sigma-and-athena-615940bedc56

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔷 Microsoft Entra Workload ID - Introduction and Delegated Permissions

Post providing an overview about some aspects and features which are important in delegating management of Workload ID in Microsoft Entra: Who can see and create apps? Why you should avoid assigning owners to service principals or application objects?

https://www.cloud-architekt.net/entra-workload-id-introduction-and-delegation

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🔶 More on Abusing the Amazon Web Services SSM Agent as a Remote Access Trojan

This blog lays out a new potential post-exploitation technique: Abusing AWS Systems Manager (SSM) agent so that it functions as a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) on both Linux and Windows machines, while using an attacker AWS account as a Command and Control (C&C).

https://www.mitiga.io/blog/abusing-the-amazon-web-services-ssm-agent-as-a-remote-access-trojan

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🔴 Signing URLs in GCP: Convenience vs. Security

Why the "iam.serviceAccounts.signBlob" permission can cause trouble in your GCP environment.

https://lsgeurope.com/post/signing-urls-in-gcp-convenience-vs-security

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🔶 Perform continuous vulnerability scanning of AWS Lambda functions with Amazon Inspector

Activate Amazon Inspector within one or more AWS accounts, and be notified when a vulnerability is detected in an AWS Lambda function.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/perform-continuous-vulnerability-scanning-of-aws-lambda-functions-with-amazon-inspector/

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🔶 Configure fine-grained access to your resources shared using AWS Resource Access Manager

You can use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) to securely, simply, and consistently share supported resource types within your organization or organizational units (OUs) and across AWS accounts.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/configure-fine-grained-access-to-your-resources-shared-using-aws-resource-access-manager/

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🔷 Unauthorized Access to Cross-Tenant Applications in Microsoft Power Platform

A researcher at Tenable has discovered an issue that enables limited, unauthorized access to cross-tenant applications and sensitive data (including but not limited to authentication secrets).

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2023-25

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔷 Knocking on the Front Door (client side desync attack on Azure CDN)

A write-up on a Browser-Powered Desync bug discovered in the Azure CDN service known as Front Door.

https://blog.jeti.pw/posts/knocking-on-the-front-door

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🔶 Hacking Github AWS integrations again

Another post looking at the perils of unproperly scoping access provided by OIDC.

https://dagrz.com/writing/aws-security/hacking-github-aws-oidc

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🔶 AWS Security Monitoring in 2023: Untangle the chaos

This post provides recommendations for implementing an effective security monitoring strategy in AWS.

https://marbot.io/blog/2023-08-04-aws-security-monitoring-in-2023.html

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