CloudSec Wine

🔴 Hunting for Bucket Traversals in Google's Client Libraries A bucket traversal vulnerability arises when an application mishandles user input while interacting with cloud storage, allowing unauthorized access to storage objects. https://jdomeracki.github.io/2025/05/04/hunting_for_bucket_traversals/ #gcp

🔶 PowerUserAccess vs. AdministratorAccess from an attacker's perspective The article highlights the dangers of using the AWS managed policy PowerUserAccess in complex environments by sharing an attacker's perspective on the matter. https://www.offensai.com/blog/poweruseraccess-vs-administratoraccess-from-an-attacker-perspective (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 Root in prod: The most important security analysis you will never do on your AWS accounts This article outlines steps for identifying AWS accounts, determining which ones are truly production, and analyzing access levels, including finding users and roles with AdministratorAccess. https://www.plerion.com/blog/root-in-prod #aws

🔶 TrailAlerts TrailAlerts is a AWS-native, serverless cloud-detection tool that lets you define simple rules as code and get rich alerts about events in AWS. https://github.com/adanalvarez/TrailAlerts #aws

🔶 Implementing safety guardrails for applications using Amazon SageMaker Post explaining guardrail implementation strategies. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/implementing-safety-guardrails-for-applications-using-amazon-sagemaker/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 AI lifecycle risk management: ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for AI governance Post explaining how ISO/IEC 42001 enables effective AI governance, review the risk management requirements, and explore how you can use threat modeling as a practical technique to meet those expectations. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/ai-lifecycle-risk-management-iso-iec-420012023-for-ai-governance/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

👩‍💻 Does AZNFS SUID your needs? A Path to Root Privilege Escalation on Azure AI and HPC An Azure utility for mounting Azure Storage that comes preinstalled on Azure HPC/AI images allowed an unprivileged user on a Linux machine with this utility installed to escalate their privileges to root. https://www.varonis.com/blog/aznfs-root-privilege-escalation-on-azure (Use VPN to open from Russia) #azure

🔶 Tales from the cloud trenches: The Attacker doth persist too much A cloud attack targeting Amazon SES and persistence via AWS Lambda, AWS IAM Identity Center and AWS IAM. https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/tales-from-the-cloud-trenches-the-attacker-doth-persist-too-much/ #aws

🔶 Use an Amazon Bedrock powered chatbot with Amazon Security Lake to help investigate incidents How to deploy a security chatbot with a GUI and a serverless backend powered by an Amazon Bedrock agent that incorporates existing playbooks to investigate or respond to a security event. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/use-an-amazon-bedrock-powered-chatbot-with-amazon-security-lake-to-help-investigate-incidents/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔴 What's new in IAM, Access Risk, and Cloud Governance At Google Cloud Next, Google announced multiple new capabilities in their IAM, Access Risk, and Cloud Governance portfolio, including: IAM, Access Risk products including VPC Service Controls, Context-Aware Access and Identity Threat Detection and Response, Cloud Governance with Organization Policy Service, and Resource Management. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/whats-new-in-iam-access-risk-and-cloud-governance/ #gcp

🔶 Configuring Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Amazon Q CLI This post will walk you through everything you need to know to get Amazon Q CLI up and running to use MCP. https://blog.beachgeek.co.uk/getting-started-mcp-amazon-q-cli/ #aws

🔶 S3 bucket name squatting Post sharing findings on four AWS services - Amazon Athena, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Config - and the implications of bucket name squatting. https://www.reply.com/spike-reply/en/blog/s3-bucket-name-squatting #aws

🔶 The Cloud Hunting Games A new CTF by Wiz. https://www.cloudhuntinggames.com/ #aws

👩‍💻 The Invisible Enemy: Unmasking Microsoft 365's Logging Blind Spots Blog dissecting the limitations of Microsoft's activity logs, walking through real-world simulations using the msInvader tool, and highlighting what gets seen and what silently slips through the cracks. https://www.abstract.security/blog/the-invisible-enemy-unmasking-microsoft-365s-logging-blind-spots #azure

🔴 Tag Your Way In: New Privilege Escalation Technique in GCP This post introduces a novel privilege escalation technique in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that exploits IAM Conditions in combination with tagBindings. https://www.mitiga.io/blog/tag-your-way-in-new-privilege-escalation-technique-in-gcp #gcp

🔶 Preventing Cross-Service Confused Deputy Attacks in AWS ELB Logging Post highlighting the inconsistency in AWS services regarding S3 bucket permissions and encryption methods. https://tomclancy.me/2025/04/24/preventing-cross-service-confused-deputy-attacks-in-aws-elb-logging.html #aws

🔶 Shadow Roles: AWS Defaults Can Open the Door to Service Takeover Post walking through multiple real-world scenarios, including how a malicious Hugging Face model can escalate privileges, how limited Glue access can impact other services, and how a single default role can ultimately lead to full control of an AWS account. https://www.aquasec.com/blog/shadow-roles-aws-defaults-lead-to-service-takeover/ #aws

🔶 AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk The «Account Assessment for AWS Organizations» tool, designed to audit resource-based policies for risky cross-account access, ironically introduced cross-account privilege escalation risks due to flawed deployment instructions. https://www.token.security/blog/aws-built-a-security-tool-it-introduced-a-security-risk #aws

🔶 How to help prevent hotlinking using referer checking, AWS WAF, and Amazon CloudFront How to help prevent hotlinking by using header inspection in AWS WAF, while still taking advantage of the improved user experience from a CDN such as CloudFront. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/how-to-prevent-hotlinking-by-using-aws-waf-amazon-cloudfront-and-referer-checking/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔴 MCP Toolbox for Databases: Simplify AI Agent Access to Enterprise Data Learn how MCP Toolbox for Databases can help you deliver secure and standardized ways to have your agents communicate with one another and access enterprise data. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/mcp-toolbox-for-databases-now-supports-model-context-protocol/ #gcp