🔴 Exploring a Critical Risk in Google Workspace's Domain-Wide Delegation Feature

A security risk discovered in the Google Cloud Platform domain-wide delegation feature allows a user to generate an access token to Google Workspace, granting unauthorized access to data and other key tools.

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/critical-risk-in-google-workspace-delegation-feature/

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🔷 Microsoft Incident Response lessons on preventing cloud identity compromise

Different scenarios involving misconfigured hybrid identity setups that could lead to compromise of Microsoft Entra ID.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/05/microsoft-incident-response-lessons-on-preventing-cloud-identity-compromise/

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🔴 DevSecOps and CI/CD using Google Cloud Built-in Services

How to build a secure CI/CD pipeline using Google Cloud's built-in services using Cloud Build, Cloud Deploy, Artifact Registry, Binary Authorization and GKE.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/devsecops-and-cicd-using-google-cloud-built-in-services

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🔶 Zonal autoshift - Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues

A new capability of Route 53 Application Recovery Controller that you can enable to automatically and safely shift your workload's traffic away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that Availability Zone and shift it back once the failure is resolved.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/zonal-autoshift-automatically-shift-your-traffic-away-from-availability-zones-when-we-detect-potential-issues/

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🔴 Unauthenticated Access to GCP Dataproc Can Lead to Data Leak

A lack of security controls of the underlying Open Source Software (OSS) managed solution allows an attacker with knowledge of the Dataproc IP address to access it without any authentication.

https://orca.security/resources/blog/unauthenticated-access-to-google-cloud-dataproc/

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🔶 Cloud services as exfiltration mechanisms

This article outlines how as an adversary you can use an AWS service to exfiltrate data.

https://airwalkreply.com/cloud-services-as-exfiltration-mechanisms

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🔶 AWS Security Services Best Practices

Best practices for configuring AWS security services. From the AWS team.

https://aws.github.io/aws-security-services-best-practices/

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🔶🔷🔴 Introducing CloudSecGPT: Your Go-To AI for Cloud Security Insights

CloudSecGPT is a custom-built generative AI model that specializes in cloud security.

https://blog.marcolancini.it/2023/blog-cloudsecgpt/

(Use VPN to open from Russia)

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🔶 Quick Tip: Minimizing Terraformed SCPs

How to tackle character limits in SCPs.

https://ramimac.me/terraform-minimized-scps

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🔷 Securing AD CS: Microsoft Defender for Identity's Sensor Unveiled

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is commonly used in Active Directory environments to manage Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and it plays a critical role in instrumenting digital certificates.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/securing-ad-cs-microsoft-defender-for-identity-s-sensor-unveiled/ba-p/3980265

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🔶 Governance at scale: Enforce permissions and compliance by using policy as code

How to automate Config and Control Tower checks.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/governance-at-scale-enforce-permissions-and-compliance-by-using-policy-as-code/

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🔴 Migrate from service account keys

An article that describes the process for migrating from service account keys to more secure authentication methods.

https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/migrate-from-service-account-keys

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🔴 Introducing Cloud SQL IAM group authentication

New IAM groups authentication in Cloud SQL simplifies granting/revoking access to database objects at scale.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing-cloud-sql-iam-group-authentication/

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🔶 AWSAttacks

This repo contains IOC, malware and malware analysis associated with AWS cloud. You can also refer to this blog post.

https://github.com/unknownhad/AWSAttacks

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🙂 Dear friends,

Happy New Year 2024! 🎅

This year has been good. The next one will be even better. We wish everyone personal and career success. Stay with us, we will delight you only with high-quality content.

#HappyNewYear

🔴 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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🔶 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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🔴 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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🔶 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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🔶 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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🔶 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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