🔴 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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🔷 Hunting M365 Invaders: Blue Team's Guide to Initial Access Vectors

Discover insights from the Splunk Threat Research Team on Microsoft 365 threat detection, focusing on data source analysis and effective methods for hunting initial access threats.

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/security/hunting-m365-invaders-blue-team-s-guide-to-initial-access-vectors.html

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🔶 Fuzzing and Bypassing the AWS WAF

The Sysdig Threat Research Team discovered techniques that allowed the AWS WAF to be bypassed using a specialized DOM event.

https://sysdig.com/blog/fuzzing-and-bypassing-the-aws-waf/

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🔷 Automating Managed Identity Token Extraction in Azure Container Registries

The «Tasks» functionality can be abused by attackers to generate tokens for any Managed Identities that are attached to the ACR.

https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/automating-managed-identity-token-extraction-in-azure-container-registries/

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🔶 Automate Cedar policy validation with AWS developer tools

How to use developer tools on AWS to implement a build pipeline that validates the Cedar policy files against a schema and runs a suite of tests to isolate the Cedar policy logic.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/automate-cedar-policy-validation-with-aws-developer-tools/

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🔶 Tales from the cloud trenches: Amazon ECS is the new EC2 for crypto mining

Two attacks in an AWS environment that led to crypto mining and data exfiltration.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/tales-from-the-cloud-trenches-ecs-crypto-mining/

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🔶 AWS Account Security Onboarding Mind Map

A succinct and structured mind map that could act like a checklist when onboarding new AWS Accounts to an existing AWS Organization.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/aws-account-security-onboarding-mind-map-artem-marusov-zrpre/

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🔶 AWS IAM Roles Anywhere with MacOS Keychain

Create a test Certificate Authority, configure AWS IAM Roles Anywhere and test access to AWS authenticating with a certificate in MacOS Keychain.

https://medium.com/@paulschwarzenberger/aws-iam-roles-anywhere-with-macos-keychain-17764b5fb848

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🔷 Azure Logs: Breaking Through the Cloud Cover

Azure Monitor Activity Logs can be difficult to interpret. This blog offers insights into these logs where you'll find an invaluable reference tool and guide designed to demystify Azure's logging complexities.

https://permiso.io/blog/azure-logs-breaking-through-the-cloud-cover

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🔴 Google Cloud Incident Response Cheat Sheet

A visual lifeline designed to equip you with the crucial steps and resources needed to navigate a GCP security incident.

https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-incident-response-cheat-sheet-dfde9054ac16

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🔷 Azure Attack Paths

Post shedding some light on known attack paths in an Azure environment.

https://cloudbrothers.info/en/azure-attack-paths/

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🔶 How least privilege leads to a false sense of security

A view on least privilege which proposes its application misleads us in a wrong sense of security.

https://www.robertdemeyer.com/post/ciem-part-1-how-least-privilege-leads-to-a-false-sense-of-security

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🔴 Sys:All Google Kubernetes Engine Risk

The Orca Research Pod has discovered a risk in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that would allow an attacker with any Google account to take over a Kubernetes cluster. You can also read the follow up blog post.

https://orca.security/resources/blog/sys-all-google-kubernetes-engine-risk/

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🔶 How Zurich Insurance Group built their Scalable Account Vending process using AWS Account Factory for Terraform

By adopting AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform, Zurich were able to achieve the scalability, resilience and performance to support provisioning of a projected 3000+ accounts.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/architecture/how-zurich-insurance-group-built-their-scalable-account-vending-process-using-aws-account-factory-for-terraform/

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🔶 The curious case of DangerDev@protonmail.me

An AWS incident response story, including the techniques used by the threat actor.

https://www.invictus-ir.com/news/the-curious-case-of-dangerdev-protonmail-me

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🔴 GKE/Gmail vulnerability: notes and tips

Security researchers have discovered a new Google Kubernetes Engine misconfiguration that could allow attackers with a basic Gmail account to take control of a Kubernetes (k8s) cluster.

https://expel.com/blog/gke-gmail-vulnerability-notes-and-tips/

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