🔷 Exploring the Dark Side of Package Files and Storage Account Abuse

How attackers can abuse the Storage Account's connection string to gain unauthorized access to the Function Apps.

https://3xpl01tc0d3r.blogspot.com/2023/10/exploring-dark-side-of-package-files.html

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🔶 Securing attacks targeted at user or kernel level for customer X with KubeArmor & AWS Bottlerock

The article outlines how KubeArmor and AWS Bottlerocket enhance security in Kubernetes deployments. KubeArmor aids in blocking unwanted binaries and applying granular controls at the container level, while AWS Bottlerocket fortifies host and worker nodes.

https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/10/26/securing-attacks-targeted-at-user-or-kernel-level-for-customer-x-with-kubearmor-aws-bottlerocket/

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🔶 Fargate and Cribl (Stream): How We Got It Working

The article discusses deploying Cribl using AWS Fargate to manage log data more effectively, outlining an approach to setting up this infrastructure.

https://floqast.com/engineering-blog/post/fargate-and-cribl-stream-how-we-got-it-working/

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🔴 Detect transitive access to sensitive Google Cloud resources

If a user can successfully authenticate as a service account, they gain access to all the IAM permissions associated with that account.

https://p0.dev/blog/transitive-access-gcp

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🔶 AWS Network Firewall egress filtering can be easily bypassed

If you are thinking of or are already using AWS Network Firewall to control and filter egress traffic to only allow connections to approved destination sites, you need to read this post, as it may not work as you have thought.

https://canglad.com/blog/2023/aws-network-firewall-egress-filtering-can-be-easily-bypassed/

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🔶 CloudKeys in the Air: Tracking Malicious Operations of Exposed IAM Keys

PaloAlto analyzes an attack path starting with GitHub IAM exposure and leading to creation of AWS Elastic Compute instances, which TAs used to perform cryptojacking.

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/malicious-operations-of-exposed-iam-keys-cryptojacking/

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🔶 The deputy is confused about AWS Security Hub

The article highlights a potential issue with AWS Security Hub where incorrect AWS account IDs could lead to cross-tenant data pollution, potentially allowing an attacker to pollute someone else's Security Hub.

https://blog.plerion.com/the-deputy-is-confused-about-aws-security-hub/

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🔴 Migrating to Google Workspace: Solving Email Routing Challenges

My firsthand experience with migrating from Cloudflare Email Routing to Google Workspace.

https://blog.marcolancini.it/2023/blog-migrate-to-google-workspace/

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🔶 Announcing the EKS Cluster Games

Wiz released "The EKS Cluster Games", a cloud security Capture The Flag (CTF) event. The mission? To identify and learn about common Amazon EKS security issues.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/announcing-the-eks-cluster-games

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🔷 Weather Forecast: Money Is Going to Rain from the Cloud

SafeBreach researchers discovered and exploited a billing flaw in Azure Automation Service, enabling free, hidden, and unstoppable cryptocurrency mining using Python noscripts and Runbooks.

https://www.safebreach.com/blog/cryptocurrency-miner-microsoft-azure

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🔷 Spoofing Microsoft Entra ID Verified Publisher Status

It was possible to manipulate the consenting process of a legitimate verified publisher application to implant malicious unverified applications within a Microsoft Entra ID tenant.

https://www.secureworks.com/research/spoofing-microsoft-entra-id-verified-publisher-status

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🔷 The Triforce of Initial Access

The article emphasizes that the success of Red Teaming often hinges on the quality of information (loot) gathered and the effectiveness of the tools used, such as Evilginx, ROADtools, and TeamFiltration, complemented by the Bobber noscript.

https://trustedsec.com/blog/the-triforce-of-initial-access

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🔶 How to create an AMI hardening pipeline and automate updates to your ECS instance fleet

How to create a workflow to enhance Amazon ECS-optimized AMIs by using the CIS Docker Benchmark and automatically updating your EC2 instances in your ECS cluster with the newly created AMIs.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-create-an-ami-hardening-pipeline-and-automate-updates-to-your-ecs-instance-fleet/

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🔴 Introducing Advanced Vulnerability Insights for GKE

Artifact Analysis in partnership with Google Kubernetes Engine has introduced a new vulnerability scanning offering called Advanced Vulnerability Insights.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-advanced-vulnerability-insights-for-gke

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🔷 Mistaken Identity: Extracting Managed Identity Credentials from Azure Function Apps

The article discusses a security vulnerability in Azure Function Apps, where Linux containers use an encrypted startup context file that can be decrypted to expose sensitive data, including Managed Identity certificates.

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/mistaken-identity-azure-function-apps

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🔶🔷🔴 State of Cloud Security

Datadog analyzed data from thousands of organizations to understand the latest trends in cloud security posture.

https://www.datadoghq.com/state-of-cloud-security/

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🔶 Lambda Extensions: Exploring Misuse Scenarios and Stratus Red Team Module Development

Post analyzing a well-known attack vector and then showing how to build a module for Stratus Red Team, a self-contained binary we can use to detonate offensive attack techniques against a live cloud environment easily.

https://awstip.com/lambda-extensions-exploring-misuse-scenarios-and-stratus-red-team-module-development-b63c5a73491a

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔷 Public preview: Confidential containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

AKS now lets you run individual pods in their own trusted execution environment (TEE).

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/public-preview-confidential-containers-on-aks/ba-p/3980871

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🔶 Building sensitive data remediation workflows in multi-account AWS environments

A solution that provides you with visibility into sensitive data residing across a fleet of AWS accounts through a ChatOps-style notification mechanism using Microsoft Teams, which also provides contextual information needed to conduct security investigations.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/building-sensitive-data-remediation-workflows-in-multi-account-aws-environments/

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