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👩‍💻 Azure Seamless SSO: When Cookie Theft Doesn’t Cut It

The cookie crumbled when it expired, but the attack path didn't. Learn how BloodHound graph analysis and Azure Seamless SSO enabled pivoting into the cloud.

https://specterops.io/blog/2025/12/11/azure-seamless-sso-when-cookie-theft-doesnt-cut-it/

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👩‍💻 nOAuth Abuse Update: Potential Pivot into Microsoft 365

Vulnerable SaaS apps could enable attackers to pivot back into Microsoft 365, endangering your entire Microsoft 365 estate.

https://www.semperis.com/blog/noauth-abuse-update-pivot-into-microsoft-365/

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🔶 What is EC2 Instance Attestation

EC2 Instance Attestation extends attestable scope from Nitro Enclaves' container environment to entire EC2 instances, enabling greater capabilities like GPU access. However, it requires proactive hardening versus Enclaves' secure-by-default design and more complex deployment through Attestable AMIs.

https://blog.richardfan.xyz/2025/12/18/what-is-ec2-instance-attestation.html

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🔶🔷🔴 Dear, cloud family!

Wishing you a New Year filled with innovative solutions, seamless deployments, and sky‑high success! May your cloud infrastructure be always resilient and your downtime — zero. Happy New Year 2026!

We'll be taking a short break and returning in a few days to bring you new, professional content.

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🔶 boto3-refresh-session

A simple Python package for refreshing AWS temporary credentials in boto3 automatically

https://github.com/michaelthomasletts/boto3-refresh-session

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👩‍💻 ATEAM

A Python reconnaissance tool designed to discover Azure services and attribute tenant ownership information based on their responses.

https://github.com/NetSPI/ATEAM

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🔶 aws-extend-switch-roles

Extend your AWS IAM switching roles by Chrome extension, Firefox add-on, or Edge add-on.

https://github.com/tilfinltd/aws-extend-switch-roles

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🔶🔷🔴 tokenex

A Go library that securely exchanges identity tokens for temporary cloud credentials, with built-in support for AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, Kubernetes, and OAuth2. You can also refer to the companion blog post.

https://github.com/riptideslabs/tokenex

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🔶 IAMhounddog

A tool to help pentesters quickly identify privileged principals and second-order privilege escalation opportunities in unfamiliar AWS accounts.

https://github.com/VirtueSecurity/IAMhounddog

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🔶 yams

A Go library, server, and CLI providing foundational capabilities to simulate access for AWS IAM policies.

https://github.com/nsiow/yams

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🔶 aws-finops-dashboard

A terminal-based AWS cost and resource dashboard which provides an overview of AWS spend by account, service-level breakdowns, budget tracking, and EC2 instance summaries.

https://github.com/ravikiranvm/aws-finops-dashboard

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🔶 AWS Builder Center

A portal collecting hands-on workshops crafted by AWS experts to gain practical experience and solve real business challenges.

https://builder.aws.com/build/workshops

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🔶 AWS Lambda Managed Instances: A Security Overview

An initial security overview of AWS Lambda Managed Instances, exploring the Bottlerocket-based architecture, the 'Elevator' components, and security insights for this new compute model.

https://www.offensai.com/blog/aws-lambda-managed-instances-security-overview

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🔶 All Paths Lead to Your Cloud: A Mapping of Initial Access Vectors to Your AWS Environment

Post which analyzes AWS initial access vectors through identity-driven misconfigurations, categorizing them into service exposure (Lambda, EC2, ECR, DataSync) and access by design (IAM/STS, IoT, Cognito) vulnerabilities that compromise cloud perimeter security.

https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/blog/cloud-security/aws-initial-access-cloud-perimeter-security/

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🔶 Exploiting AWS IAM Eventual Consistency for Persistence

AWS IAM eventual consistency creates a 4-second window where deleted AWS access keys can still work. Learn how attackers exploit this and how to mitigate it.

https://www.offensai.com/blog/aws-iam-eventual-consistency-persistence

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👩‍💻 Investigating an adversary-in-the-middle phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 and Okta users

Datadog identified an active adversary-in-the-middle phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 and Okta users. The campaign uses lookalike domains, proxies legitimate authentication pages, injects JavaScript to steal credentials and session tokens, and can bypass non-phishing-resistant MFA.

https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/investigating-an-aitm-phishing-campaign-m365-okta/

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🔴 VPC Flow Logs for Cross-Cloud Network

With VPC Flow Logs, now you can monitor critical network traffic moving between your on-prem infrastructure, cross-cloud resources, and Google Cloud.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/vpc-flow-logs-for-cross-cloud-network/

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🔶 Amazon CloudWatch introduces unified data management and analytics for operations, security, and compliance

CloudWatch can automatically normalize and process data to offer consistency across sources with built-in support for Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and Open Telemetry (OTel) formats, so you can focus on analytics and insights.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-introduces-unified-data-management-and-analytics-for-operations-security-and-compliance/

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