CloudSec Wine

👩‍💻 Understanding the threat landscape for Kubernetes and containerized assets Microsoft released and updated the threat matrix for Kubernetes, an active knowledge base for security threats that target Kubernetes clusters, to systematically map the attack surface of Kubernetes. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/23/understanding-the-threat-landscape-for-kubernetes-and-containerized-assets/ #azure

🔶🔷🔴 Threat Modelling Cloud Service Providers in 2025 With the US Government acting in an erratic and hostile manner towards its traditional allies, it makes sense for companies not typically subject to US Jurisdiction to reconsider their threat models when using the big three cloud providers. All of them are US-based companies, and all three conduct a substantial amount of business with the US Government. https://www.chrisfarris.com/post/threat-model-2025/ #aws #azure #gcp

🔶 Secure Cross-Account Access is Tricky. Four Common Dangerous Misconceptions Post diving into cross-account trust policies, explaining four major misconceptions repeatedly seen in organizations, which often lead to the creation of cross-account trust paths from less secure accounts to more sensitive accounts. https://www.token.security/blog/secure-cross-account-access-is-tricky-four-common-dangerous-misconceptions #aws

🔶 Gaining Long-Term AWS Access with CodeBuild and GitHub Another example of how attackers can abuse legitimate AWS services for persistence. https://medium.com/@adan.alvarez/gaining-long-term-aws-access-with-codebuild-and-github-873324638784 #aws

🔶 Path Traversal Vulnerability in AWS SSM Agent's Plugin ID Validation A Path Traversal vulnerability found in the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Agent, specifically within the ValidatePluginId function of the pluginutil.go file. https://cymulate.com/blog/aws-ssm-agent-plugin-id-path-traversal/ #aws

🔶 AWS SNS Abuse: Data Exfiltration and Phishing Post diving into publicly known SNS abuse attempts and Elastic's knowledge of the data source to develop detection capabilities. https://www.elastic.co/security-labs/aws-sns-abuse #aws

🔶 IAM Role Trust Policies: Misconfigurations Hiding in Plain Sight Even small misconfigurations in role trust policies can unintentionally create critical privilege escalation risks in AWS, such as allowing low-privileged users to assume admin roles. https://www.token.security/blog/iam-role-trust-policies-misconfigurations-hiding-in-plain-sight #aws

🔶 How to use the new CloudTrail network activity events for AWS VPC Endpoints How AWS VPC Endpoint CloudTrail logs can help you troubleshoot endpoint policies and strengthen your network's security against data exfiltration. https://www.wiz.io/blog/aws-vpc-endpoint-cloudtrail #aws

🔶 Automating AWS Private CA audit reports and certificate expiration alerts Guide through a custom automation workflow that harnesses AWS Private CA audit reports to monitor certificate expirations proactively. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/automating-aws-private-ca-audit-reports-and-certificate-expiration-alerts/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔴 Cloud WAN: Connect your global enterprise with a network built for the AI era Cloud WAN is a fully managed, reliable, and secure enterprise backbone to transform enterprise wide area network (WAN) architectures. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/connect-globally-with-cloud-wan-for-the-ai-era/ #gcp

🔴 Introducing Google Unified Security Google introduced Unified Security, a new security solution that combines Google Cloud's security products with Mandiant's expertise to provide a comprehensive approach to threat intelligence, security operations, cloud security, and secure enterprise browsing. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/driving-secure-innovation-with-ai-google-unified-security-next25/ #gcp

🔶 Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest Post discussing Pinterest's experiences in identifying the challenges associated with EC2 network throttling, as well as how they developed network performance monitoring for their EC2 fleet. https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/handling-network-throttling-with-aws-ec2-at-pinterest-fda0efc21083 (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 Planning for your IAM Roles Anywhere deployment Before you start using IAM Roles Anywhere, it's important to plan how you'll integrate it with your PKI and with your applications running outside of AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/planning-for-your-iam-roles-anywhere-deployment/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔶 Invoking Misconfigured API Gateways from Any External AWS Accounts Did you know a misconfigured private API Gateway can be invoked from any AWS account? https://www.offensai.com/blog/invoking-misconfigured-api-gateways-from-external-aws-accounts (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔴 ImageRunner: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Run The vulnerability could have allowed to abuse Google Cloud Run permissions in order to pull private Google Artifact Registry and Google Container Registry images in the same account. https://www.tenable.com/blog/imagerunner-a-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-impacting-gcp-cloud-run (Use VPN to open from Russia) #gcp

🔶 How does Sendbird secure AWS? How Sendbird matured its AWS security posture, empowering developers to deploy in a way that's both user-friendly and secure. https://sendbird.com/blog/aws-security #aws

🔶 Effectively implementing resource control policies in a multi-account environment Post demonstrating how RCPs can help improve your security posture while allowing even more freedom to developers in managing their resources, thus reducing friction between central security and application teams. https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/security/effectively-implementing-resource-controls-policies-in-a-multi-account-environment/ (Use VPN to open from Russia) #aws

🔴 Introducing protection summary, a new Google Cloud Backup and DR feature Google Cloud Backup and DR's protection summary offers a centralized view of data protection configuration, identifying gaps and improving resilience. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/google-cloud-backup-and-dr-protection-summary/ #gcp

🔶 Interactive AWS NAT Gateway An interactive blog post exploring how AWS NAT Gateway works. https://malithr.com/aws/natgateway/ #aws

👩‍💻 Creating immutable users through a bug in Entra ID restricted administrative units Imagine trying to disable a malicious user in your Azure environment, only to find it can't be modified! Datadog recently identified a timing-based bug in Entra ID's restricted administrative units (AUs) that could have allowed just this scenario to occur. https://securitylabs.datadoghq.com/articles/creating-immutable-users-entra-id-administrative-units/ #azure