CloudSec Wine

🔶 Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region AWS announces VPC encryption controls, a new capability that helps organizations audit and enforce encryption in transit for all traffic within and across VPCs in a Region, simplifying compliance with regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP through automated monitoring and enforcement modes. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/introducing-vpc-encryption-controls-enforce-encryption-in-transit-within-and-across-vpcs-in-a-region/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 AWS Secrets Manager launches Managed External Secrets for Third-Party Credentials AWS Secrets Manager introduces managed external secrets for third-party credentials like Salesforce, Snowflake, and BigID. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/aws-secrets-manager-launches-managed-external-secrets-for-third-party-credentials/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 Introducing guidelines for network scanning AWS introduces network scanning guidelines for customer workloads to distinguish legitimate security scans from malicious activity. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/introducing-guidelines-for-network-scanning/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 Phishing for AWS Credentials via the New ‘aws login’ Flow The new aws login command, designed to provide temporary credentials for local development, can be exploited by attackers for phishing, even bypassing phishing-resistant MFA. https://medium.com/@adan.alvarez/phishing-for-aws-credentials-via-the-new-aws-login-flow-39f6969b4eae (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 Simplify access to external services using AWS IAM Outbound Identity Federation AWS IAM now enables outbound identity federation, allowing developers to securely authenticate AWS workloads with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens instead of storing long-term credentials like API keys and passwords. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/simplify-access-to-external-services-using-aws-iam-outbound-identity-federation/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔴 Introducing the Emerging Threats Center in Google Security Operations Google introduces the Emerging Threats Center in Google Security Operations, powered by Gemini AI. It automates detection engineering by ingesting threat intelligence, generating synthetic events, testing coverage, and creating detection rules to help security teams rapidly assess exposure and defensive posture against emerging threats. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-the-emerging-threats-center-in-google-security-operations/ #gcp

👩‍💻 Terraform Stacks: A Deep-Dive for Azure Practitioners in Europe This article explores Terraform Stacks for Azure on HCP Terraform EU. It covers designing stacks with components and deployments, building modules, configuring authentication via OIDC, passing data between stacks, and operational tasks like provisioning and managing stacks at scale. https://mattias.engineer/blog/2025/terraform-stacks-deep-dive-azure/ #azure

👩‍💻 Managing Privileged Roles in Microsoft Entra ID A three-tier model for classifying privileged Microsoft Entra ID roles: Tier 0 (core tenant administration/security), Tier 1 (major service component administration), and Tier 2 (limited-scope/read-only). Each tier has defined security controls, addressing inconsistencies in Microsoft's privileged role documentation. https://trustedsec.com/blog/managing-privileged-roles-in-microsoft-entra-id-a-pragmatic-approach #azure

🔶 Weaponizing the AWS CLI for Persistence This article demonstrates weaponizing AWS CLI aliases for stealthy persistence. A one-liner dynamically toggles alias activation to execute malicious payloads while preserving original command functionality, evading detection. The technique exfiltrates credentials post-execution and persists across sessions, useful for red team operations. https://slayer0x.github.io/awscli/ #aws

🔴 Private AI Compute: our next step in building private and helpful AI Google introduces Private AI Compute, a cloud AI processing platform combining Gemini models with on-device-level privacy protections. It uses hardware-secured enclaves, remote attestation, and encryption to ensure personal data remains inaccessible to anyone, including Google, while enabling faster, more capable AI experiences. https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-private-ai-compute/ #gcp

🔶🔷🔴 The log rings don’t lie: historical enumeration in plain sight Logs aren't just for defenders. This research explores how attackers exploit cloud audit logs for enumeration and reconnaissance across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and how to detect and defend. https://www.exaforce.com/blogs/log-rings-dont-lie-historical-enumeration-in-plain-sight #aws #azure #gcp

🔴 Hacking Gemini: A Multi-Layered Approach The article describes exploiting multi-layered architecture discrepancies in Gemini to bypass Markdown sanitization. The researcher achieved image injection through linkification quirks and context bridges (Gemini-to-Colab), enabling workspace data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection despite existing protections. https://buganizer.cc/hacking-gemini-a-multi-layered-approach-md (Use VPN to open from Russia) #gcp

🔶 Managing AWS SSM Parameters with Terraform with External Updates How to manage AWS SSM Parameters with Terraform using the lifecycle "ignore_changes" meta-argument, allowing external processes to update parameter values without Terraform reverting them on subsequent applies https://www.proactiveops.io/archive/managing-aws-ssm-parameters-with-terraform-with/ #aws

🔴 Public Report: Google Private AI Compute Review NCC Group conducted a 100 person-day security review of Google's Private AI Compute system across two phases, evaluating architecture, cryptography, attestation, IP-blinding relay, T-Log system, and frontend components to ensure cloud-based AI processing maintains local-only privacy guarantees. https://www.nccgroup.com/research-blog/public-report-google-private-ai-compute-review/ #gcp

🔶 Introducing AWS Capabilities by Region for easier Regional planning and faster global deployment AWS Capabilities by Region is a new planning tool that provides detailed visibility into AWS services, features, APIs, and CloudFormation resources across different AWS Regions, helping customers make informed decisions for global deployments and prevent costly rework through side-by-side regional comparisons and forward-looking roadmap information. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/introducing-aws-capabilities-by-region-for-easier-regional-planning-and-faster-global-deployments/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 Authorizing access to data with RAG implementations An architecture pattern for providing strong authorization for results returned from knowledge bases with a walkthrough example of this using Amazon S3 Access Grants with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/authorizing-access-to-data-with-rag-implementations/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 Migrating from Open Policy Agent to Amazon Verified Permissions Post exploring the process of migrating from OPA and Rego to Verified Permissions and Cedar, including policy translation strategies, software development and testing approaches, and deployment considerations. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/migrating-from-open-policy-agent-to-amazon-verified-permissions/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔴 How Google Does It: Threat modeling, from basics to AI Google's threat modeling process follows four key questions: identifying scope, enumerating potential threats using STRIDE methodology and threat libraries, operationalizing mitigations through defensive controls and offensive red team activities, and continuously updating models through review processes and AI-powered automation with Gemini. https://cloud.google.com/transform/how-google-does-it-threat-modeling-from-basics-to-ai/ #gcp

🔶 Crimson Collective: A New Threat Group Observed Operating in the Cloud Rapid7 has observed increased activity of a new threat group attacking AWS cloud environments, Crimson Collective, who recently claimed to have stolen private repositories from Red Hat's GitLab. https://www.rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-crimson-collective-a-new-threat-group-observed-operating-in-the-cloud/ #aws

🔴 A practical guide to Google Cloud's Parameter Manager Google Cloud Parameter Manager is designed to reduce unnecessarily sharing key cloud configurations, and it works with many types of data formats. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/a-practical-guide-to-google-clouds-parameter-manager/ #gcp