CloudSec Wine

🔴 Enhancing Cybersecurity with Security Command Center's Attack Path Simulations and Attack Exposure Scoring

Security Command Center (SCC) recently introduced two new features: Attack Path Simulation (APS) and Attack Exposure Scoring (AES).

https://medium.com/google-cloud/enhancing-cybersecurity-with-security-command-centers-attack-path-simulation-and-attack-path-46c527cd4927

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🔶 Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Require services to be created only within expected networks

How to use preventative controls to help ensure that your resources are deployed within your VPC, so that you can effectively enforce the network perimeter controls.

https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/establishing-a-data-perimeter-on-aws-require-services-to-be-created-only-within-expected-networks/

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🔶 Reversing AWS IAM unique IDs

How to identify the ARN of a user/role from AWS IAM unique IDs, often seen in CloudTrail logs.

https://awsteele.com/blog/2023/11/19/reversing-aws-iam-unique-ids.html

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🔷 (Ab)using the Microsoft Identity Platform: Exploring Azure AD Token Caching

Presentation examining how JSON Web Token (JWT) caching works in corporate settings with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) integration, including Azure AD Joined and Hybrid environments.

https://github.com/FuzzySecurity/SANS-HackFest-2023/blob/main/SANS_HackFest23-Abusing_The-Microsoft-Identity-Platform.pdf

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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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🔷 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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🔶 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

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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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🔷 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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🔴 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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🔶 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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🔷 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 script.

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

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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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🔷 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 scripts and Runbooks.

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

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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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🔶🔴 ApatchMe - Authenticated Stored XSS Vulnerability in AWS and GCP Apache Airflow Services

Unpatched Apache Airflow instances used in AWS and GCP allow an exploitable stored XSS through the task instance details page.

https://www.tenable.com/blog/apatchme-authenticated-stored-xss-vulnerability-in-aws-and-gcp-apache-airflow-services

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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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🔶 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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🔶 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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