CloudSec Wine

🎉🥳 Dear women of our community! We would like to congratulate you on International Women's Day! We wish you to remain a source of inspiration so that we, men, make clouds even safer) 🔶 Whoever has time this holiday - we recommend reading the post «Enhance container software supply chain visibility through SBOM export with Amazon Inspector and QuickSight». How to can export software bills of materials (SBOMs) for your containers by using an AWS native service, Amazon Inspector, and visualize the SBOMs through Amazon QuickSight. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/enhance-container-software-supply-chain-visibility-through-sbom-export-with-amazon-inspector-and-quicksight/ #aws

👩‍💻 Extracting Sensitive Information from the Azure Batch Service Attackers with Reader access to Batch can: read sensitive data from job outputs and gain access to SAS tokens for Storage Account files attached to the jobs. https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical/cloud-penetration-testing/extracting-sensitive-information-from-azure-batch-service/ #azure

🔶 The state of ABAC on AWS (in 2024) Scott Piper checked in on «The state of ABAC on AWS» back in 2020. Things are only a little better. https://ramimac.me/abac #aws

🔶🔷🔴 Navigating the Cloud: Exploring Lateral Movement Techniques Some lateral movement techniques observed in the wild within cloud environments. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cloud-lateral-movement-techniques/ #aws #azure #gcp

🔶 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/ #aws

🔷 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/ #azure

🔷 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/ #azure

🔷 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/ #azure

🔶 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/ #aws

🔶 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/ #aws

🔶 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/ #aws

🔶 (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/ #aws

🔶 Fargate Is Not Firecracker A common misconception that AWS never corrected anyone about. https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-firecracker/ #aws

🔷 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/ #azure

🔶🔷🔴 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/ #aws #azure #gcp

🔶 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 #aws

🔶 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/ #aws

🔷 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/ #azure

🔶 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 #aws

🔴 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/ #gcp