🔶 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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🔷 Azure Arc as persistence technique: stealthier than one would think on Linux servers

Post analyzing how using Azure Arc as a persistence vector would work, and what kind of logs it would generate on the host.

https://safecontrols.blog/2023/10/25/azure-arc-as-persistence-technique-stealthier-than-one-would-think-on-linux-servers/

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🔶 CIEM Part 2: Measure risk probability in IAM

Post that tries to classify IAM Roles or IAM User candidates for an attack.

https://www.robertdemeyer.com/post/ciem-part-2-measure-risk-probability-in-iam

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🔴 Announcing general availability of Custom Org Policy to help tailor resource guardrails with confidence

Custom Organization Policies is now generally available. The powerful new extension to Org Policies can create granular resource policies to address cloud governance requirements.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-custom-org-policy-to-help-tailor-resource-guardrails-with-confidence/

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🔶 CIEM Part 3: Mastering privilege management for developers

How to determine the right point in time to harden a role which results in guidance on where to invest your time.

https://www.robertdemeyer.com/post/ciem-part-3-mastering-privilege-management-for-developers

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🔷 Azure HDInsight Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

The Orca Security Research Pod discovered three vulnerabilities in Azure HDInsight that could lead to privilege escalation and denial of service.

https://orca.security/resources/blog/azure-hd-insight-vulnerabilities-privilege-escalation/

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🔶 Conditional Love for AWS Metadata Enumeration

How would you feel if an attacker could read your AWS resource tags? Turns out they can!

https://blog.plerion.com/conditional-love-for-aws-metadata-enumeration/

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🔶 New EKS Access Management and Pod Identity features: a security analysis

The Wiz research team unpacks the security implications of the new EKS access and identity management features and recommends best practices when using them.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/eks-cluster-access-management-and-pod-identity-security-recommendations

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🔶🔷🔴 The Nine Lives of Commando Cat: Analysing a Novel Malware Campaign Targeting Docker

Commando Cat is a novel cryptojacking campaign exploiting Docker for Initial Access. The campaign deploys a credential stealer payload, targeting Cloud Service Provider credentials (AWS, GCP, Azure).

https://www.cadosecurity.com/the-nine-lives-of-commando-cat-analysing-a-novel-malware-campaign-targeting-docker/

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🔷 The Attackers Guide to Azure AD Conditional Access

Post showing why it is important to understand the Conditional Access policy evaluation process and how to find and exploit flaws in a policy design.

https://danielchronlund.com/2022/01/07/the-attackers-guide-to-azure-ad-conditional-access/

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🔶 Fargate Is Not Firecracker

A common misconception that AWS never corrected anyone about.

https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-firecracker/

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🔶 (Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup

The author reviews infrastructure decisions over four years at a startup, covering successful choices and regrets, emphasizing AWS, EKS, managed services, automation, and the value of early adoption and GitOps.

https://cep.dev/posts/every-infrastructure-decision-i-endorse-or-regret-after-4-years-running-infrastructure-at-a-startup/

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🔶 How to be IR Prepared in AWS

This blog aims to demystify AWS' sometimes complicated logging methods to help organizations prepare for when a security incident occurs, outlining which logs should be enabled for the purpose of incident investigations.

https://www.cadosecurity.com/how-to-be-ir-prepared-in-aws/

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🔶 A few notes on AWS Nitro Enclaves: Images and attestation

The AWS Nitro Enclaves platform lacks thorough documentation and mature tooling. So the Trail of Bits team decided to do some deep research into it to fill in some of the documentation gaps and, most importantly, to find security footguns and offer some advice for avoiding them.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/02/16/a-few-notes-on-aws-nitro-enclaves-images-and-attestation/

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🔶 Detecting Manual AWS Actions: An Update!

An updated version of how to detect manual AWS actions from employees.

https://arkadiyt.com/2024/02/18/detecting-manual-aws-actions-an-update/

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🔷 Pivoting from Microsoft Cloud to On-Premise Machines

This article demonstrates one situation discovered during a recent cloud penetration test that allowed the team to pivot from a Microsoft cloud environment to on-premise machines via PSRemoting.

https://whiteknightlabs.com/2024/02/21/pivoting-from-microsoft-cloud-to-on-premise-machines/

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🔷 How I bypassed the control plane in Azure OpenAI

The Trust on Cloud team discovered a way to allow the management of Azure OpenAI deployments via the Data Plane, resulting in the loss of major security controls.

https://trustoncloud.com/how-i-bypassed-the-control-plane-in-azure-openai/

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🔷 How to be IR prepared in Azure

This blog demystifies Azure's sometimes complicated logging methods, outlining which logs should be enabled and how to enable them.

https://www.cadosecurity.com/how-to-be-ir-prepared-in-azure/

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🔶 Security Centralization for AWS Multi-account using Native Services

Post going through native tools that we can utilize to centralize compliance, logging, monitoring, and user & access management through multi-accounts in an organization.

https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/security-centralization-aws-multi-account-using-native-services/

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