🔶 A security community success story of mitigating a misconfiguration

Learn about the process of preventing security issues by changing things outside of your environment by looking at how a misconfiguration was occurring when Github Actions were integrated with AWS IAM roles and the improvements made that have now made this misconfiguration much less likely.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/a-security-community-success-story-of-mitigating-a-misconfiguration

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🔶 How Attackers Can Misuse AWS CloudFront Access to 'Make It Rain' Cookies

Post exploring two different attack scenarios: Cookie Theft via CloudFront Function, and Data Exfiltration via Lambda Function Modification.

https://medium.com/@adan.alvarez/how-attackers-can-misuse-aws-cloudfront-access-to-make-it-rain-cookies-acf9ce87541c

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔴 Light the way ahead: Platform Engineering, Golden Paths, and the power of self-service

What is a Golden Path? Who is a Golden Path for? When to build Golden Paths?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/application-development/golden-paths-for-engineering-execution-consistency/

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🔷 38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers

Wiz Research found a data exposure incident on Microsoft's AI GitHub repository, including over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages - all caused by one misconfigured SAS token.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/38-terabytes-of-private-data-accidentally-exposed-by-microsoft-ai-researchers

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🔷 Ransomware Strikes Azure Storage: Are You Ready?

Post discussing Azure Storage Accounts, pointing out forensic artifacts in Azure that can help investigate ransomware attacks, and offering methods for attack detection.

https://www.mitiga.io/blog/ransomware-strikes-azure-storage-are-you-ready

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🔶🔷🔴 How to Rotate Leaked API Keys

A collection of API key rotation tutorials for AWS, GCP, GitHub , and more.

https://howtorotate.com/docs/introduction/getting-started/

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🔴 Maintaining persistence via Shared sessions on Cloud Workstations

When an owner initiates a session and performs actions like gcloud auth login, the session state persists, shared across multiple users accessing the workstation through the same URL. This means that any user with access to the workstation can view and interact with the session artifacts created by the owner.

https://saransh-rana.gitbook.io/aboutme/maintaining-persistence-via-shared-sessions-on-cloud-workstations

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🔶 AWS's Hidden Threat: AMBERSQUID Cloud-Native Cryptojacking Operation

The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) has uncovered a novel cloud-native cryptojacking operation which they've named AMBERSQUID. This operation leverages AWS services not commonly used by attackers, such as AWS Amplify, AWS Fargate, and Amazon SageMaker.

https://sysdig.com/blog/ambersquid/

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔶 Remote analysis on cloud object-storage

The journey of making the volatility3 framework compatible with S3 object-storage to perform memory analysis over the network.

https://www.forensicxlab.com/posts/vols3/

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🔶 Enable external pipeline deployments to AWS Cloud by using IAM Roles Anywhere

Post walking through the steps on how to obtain AWS temporary credentials for your external CI/CD pipelines by using IAM Roles Anywhere and an on-premises hosted server running Azure DevOps Services.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/enable-external-pipeline-deployments-to-aws-cloud-by-using-iam-roles-anywhere/

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🔶 Automate Lambda code signing with Amazon CodeCatalyst and AWS Signer

How to use Amazon CodeCatalyst with AWS Signer to fully manage the code signing process to ensure the trust and integrity of code assets.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/devops/automate-lambda-code-signing-with-amazon-codecatalyst-and-aws-signer/

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🔶 Deploy AWS WAF faster with Security Automations

You can now deploy AWS WAF managed rules as part of the Security Automations for AWS WAF solution.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/deploy-aws-managed-rules-using-security-automations-for-aws-waf/

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🔶 terraform-aws-api-gateway

Terraform module to create Route53 resource on AWS for create api gateway with its basic elements.

https://github.com/clouddrove/terraform-aws-api-gateway

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🔷 Defending new vectors: Threat actors attempt SQL Server to cloud lateral movement

Microsoft's analysis of an attempt to steal the cloud identity in a SQL Server instance for lateral movement highlights the importance of securing cloud identities and implementing least privilege practices when deploying cloud-based and on-premises solutions.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/10/03/defending-new-vectors-threat-actors-attempt-sql-server-to-cloud-lateral-movement/

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🔶 Introduction to AWS Attribute-Based Access Control

The article provides an introduction to Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) in AWS. It explains how ABAC differs from traditional Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and how to use tags to implement ABAC.

https://research.nccgroup.com/2023/10/02/introduction-to-aws-attribute-based-access-control/

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🔶 5 things you may not know about AWS IAM

SCPs are not inherited like you would expect them to be, resource policies can give permissions by themselves, NotPrincipal evaluation may not do what you expect, a permission can be granted by a combination of statements, KMS grants are like detached resource policy statements.

https://blog.revolve.team/2023/09/21/5-things-about-aws-iam/

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🔶 Security Hub gives me imposter syndrome

Chris Farris' take on AWS Security Hub, what's wrong, what's good, and why it's a dangerous service for smaller companies.

https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/securityhub-2023/

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🔶 Meeting the FedRAMP FIPS 140-2 requirement on AWS

Some ideas for implementing encryption that uses FIPS modules on AWS.

https://alsmola.medium.com/meeting-the-fedramp-fips-140-2-requirement-on-aws-e9886ba3f66b

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔶 Following attackers' (Cloud)trail in AWS: Methodology and findings in the wild

Datadog's methodology to proactively identify malicious activity by investigating logs in AWS Cloudtrail.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/following-attackers-trail-in-aws-methodology-findings-in-the-wild/

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🔶 Attacking AWS Cognito with Pacu

Common problems in AWS Cognito security, as seen in client environments, which would benefit from automated scanning and exploitation.

https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/attacking-aws-cognito-with-pacu-p1/

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🔴 Investigate Service Account Key Origins and Usage with Best Practices

Deep dive on investigating service account key origins and usage, including analyzing authentication patterns, monitoring authentication events, and examining service account impersonation and key usage.

https://p0.dev/blog/service-account-key-origins

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