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20 Oct 2021
20 October, 2021 - Google Cloud Next 21 - All the Security Updates
According to recent study published by IEEE which I found interesting (which is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers around since 1963 apparently), “cloud computing (40%), 5G (38%), metaverse (37%), electric vehicles (EVs) (35%), and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) (33%) will be the five most important areas of technology of 2023”
Late December, a security engineer at CircleCI received an email notification about a potential attack on his CircleCI account thanks to an AWS CanaryToken placed by him. On Jan 4th, CircleCI advised to rotate any and all secrets stored in CircleCI and published a blog outlining the various ways to do it.
AWS announced on 5 Jan 2023, that Amazon S3 will now automatically apply server-side encryption for each new object. This has been welcomed by AWS users as a good compliance tick and also would assist with those pesky S3 bucket breaches which are still all too common.
Unit 42 researchers from Palo Alto Networks recently released a report about Automated Libra, the cloud threat actor behind the freejacking campaign PurpleUrchin, reporting that they had created more than 130,000 accounts on free or limited-use cloud platforms such as Heroku and GitHub.
Google has released reports sharing that API endpoints are increasing under attack mostly (no surprises here) due to API misconfigurations. According to their reports, many companies are intending to expand their real-time monitoring of API servers and using (AI/ML) systems to better discover flaws and detect attacks.
21 Oct 2021
21 October, 2021 - Kubecon NA 2021 - what you might miss
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Cloud Security News this week 21 October 2021
It's a month full of conferences and as promised we are back with our 2nd episode this week to bring you the cloud security highlights from KubeCon. In this episode we will share some of our team’s favourite from Kubecon 2021 North America
If you aren't quite familiar with the wonderful world of Kubernetes, there are a few weird and wonderful open source acronyms in today’s episode. TUF refers to The Update Framework, SPIFFE refers to Secure Production Identity Framework for Everyone SPIFFE, SPIRE is the SPIFFE’s Runtime Environment). Now that we are all across cool Kube words - lets into the talks
Starting off with the talk from Andrew Martin, Co-Founder of Control Plane and Author of Hacking Kubernetes and Kubernetes Threat Modelling. He spoke about Kubernetes Supply Chain Security - he showcased work to build a Kubernetes Software Factory with Tekton and Deep dived on signing and verification approaches to securely build software with (TUF) SPIFFE, SPIRE and sigstore
Ian Coldwater from Twilio; Brad Geesaman & Rory McCune from Aqua Security Duffie Cooley from Isovalent combined forces to share with the community how they do security research or hacking Kubenetes clusters using a recently discovered Kubernetes CVE (Common Vulnerability and exposure) - Their talk was called Exploiting a Slightly Peculiar Volume Configuration with SIG-Honk
Talking about containers and Vulnerability scanning If you want to know about how vulnerability scanners work, their blind spots and how to implement a practical risk based approach to remedy vulnerabilities that really matter to your organisation - check out Pushkar Joglekar’s Keeping Up with the CVEs: How to Find a Needle in a Haystack?
22 October, 2021 - HashiConf 2021 - The best Cloud Security Bits
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Cloud Security News this week 22 October 2021
Hope you have been enjoying your Cloud Security News this week and in our special third instalment for this week we bring you our best bits from Hashiconf Global 2021, conference held by Hashicorp. Hashicorp is a software company who provide open source tools and products - some of their popular products Vagrant, Terraform, Vault and boundary - You can view the conference and the talks here
The opening keynote was delivered by their Co-Founders Mitchell Hashimoto, Armon Dadgar, and CEO Dave McJannet - with key themes around Zero Trust, Hybrid and MultiCloud - looking to make Zero Trust more accessible for users. Mitchell Hashimoto spoke about the challenges Developers face when deploying applications with Kubernetes and how Waypoint assists with this.
They also spoke about the Hashicorp Cloud Platform (HCP) and the packer service which is now in public Beta, available free to use. Some of the features highlighted included remediation, enforcing security checks and maintaining images
Shane Petrich from Target in his talk “Managing Target's Secrets Platform” spoke about how Target manages and maintains its enterprise deployment of HashiCorp Vault (Hashicorp’s secret management and data protection product) -- everything from unattended builds, automated maintenance activities, and client onboardings.
Identity and account access is one of the first things you set up in the cloud and Austin Burdine, Mike Saraf and Yates Spearman share how Red Ventures implemented a custom Terraform solution to automate access management, meeting the requirements of various compliance frameworks
Last year Hashicorp announced Boundary, their secure remote access solution. This year at Hashiconf 2021, Susmitha Girumala and Mike Gaffney from HashiCorp showcased what is new in Boundary with a demo of key capabilities of identity-based access, integrated secrets management with Vault and dynamic host catalogs.
Mark Guan and Ruoran Wang from Stripe’s Service Networking Team spoke about their multi-region service networking tech stack built on Consul (Hashicorp’s service networking solution), how it works across AWS accounts and regions, federated multi-region clusters and on Kubernetes. They also generously shared the challenges they faced.
If you have been reading about Robinhood being hacked, this one wasn't a cloud security breach however a good old social engineering attack which if your interested to know more about, you can read here
24 November 2021 - GoDaddy looses 1.2 million user information
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Cloud Security News this week 24 November 2021
CSA recently announced that they have now had 1500 Cloud services evaluated across to the STAR registry principles. According to CSA, by publishing to the registry organizations can show current and potential customers their security and compliance posture which may prevent the need for them to complete multiple security questionnaires. You can find more information about CSA and STAR registry here
Security researcher Schütz was rewarded a $4,133 bounty by the Google Vulnerability Rewards Program for his Google Internal API vulnerability discovery. Google has now fixed this bug. You can read more about this here and the Schütz has documented his discovery here
Palo Alto Networks - a well known cybersecurity Vendor - Their Chairman and CEO Nikesh Arora told investors that they are “18-to-24 months ahead from a competitive platform perspective”. There a few exciting players in the Cloud Security Market right now and you can read more about this hereYou can also find more about Palo Alto, Orca Security, Wiz and Lacework on the links
Clubhouse, an audio based chatroom launched in 2020 which gained popularity during the pandemic has launched a BugBounty program on HackerOne. The scope of the Bounty includes their API and websites. The program has upto $3000 on offer for any critical vulnerabilities reported. You can find more about the program here
Using a compromised password, an unauthorised third party has managed to infiltrate GoDaddy’s systems affecting atleast 1.2 million users. Along with usernames, passwords and emails, the attackers also gained access to SSL private keys for a subset of users.
It's also the season for Revenue announcements for Quarter 3 for our big cloud providers. Google announced this week that Google Cloud revenue jumped 45 percent to $4.99 billion in the third quarter compared to the same period last year. You can view the results here
Microsoft also announced their Quarter 3 revenue for Intelligent Cloud to be $17.0 billion, an increase of 31% - You can view the results here
Microsoft shared earlier this month that things remain “Business as usual for Azure customers despite 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack” in Europe. They reported that the attack traffic originated from approximately 70,000 sources and from multiple countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Read the full statement from Microsoft here
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has detected nation-state activity associated with NOBELIUM. It's quite the interesting read and the full blog can be found here.
For those storing CloudTrail logs or other important logs to help with incident response in S3 buckets, you can now use EventBridge to build applications that react quickly and efficiently to changes in your S3 objects. This will deliver responses to potential Events/incidents of interest in a faster, more reliable, and in a more developer-friendly way than ever. More on this here
If you use AWS Control Tower and care about Data Residency, now you will be able to apply Preventive and detective controls that prevent provisioning resources in unwanted AWS Regions by restricting access to AWS APIs through service control policies (SCPs) built and managed by AWS Control Tower. This means that content cannot be created or transferred outside of your selected Regions at the infrastructure level. More on this here
They have announced Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), a new feature that provides network administrators with an automated IP management workflow.making it easier to organize, assign, monitor, and audit IP addresses in at-scale networks. More on this here
new feature.” Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer. In contrast to manual checking of network configurations, which is error-prone and hard to scale, this tool lets you analyze your AWS networks of any size and complexity. You can get started with a set of Amazon-created scopes, and then either copy & customize them, or create your own from scratch. More on this here
A new Amazon S3 Object Ownership setting and the Amazon S3 console policy editor. More on the
Most folks in cybersecurity have been consumed with all things Log4shell with a CVSS score of 10, since last week. Check out last week’s episode or our special feature on Log4shell on YouTube by Ashish Rajan if you want to know a bit more about how it started and what its all about So, where have things landed with it all so far.
To remedy the Log4Shell vulnerability, Apache has issues several patches however with each patch, additional issues were reported. The latest patch is the third installment 2.17.0 to address a new vulnerability that allow for denial of service attacks. While apache and other organisations rush to remedy and patch these vulnerabilities, an explosion of attacks continue. Belgium’s defence ministry revealed that it had been forced to shut down parts of its network after a hacker group exploited log4j to gain entry to its systems. Security firm Check Point has been monitoring the situation and, at one point, reported seeing more than 100 Log4J attacks per minute.The hackers are scattered globally. Checkpoint further reported that more than half of the exploits come from well-known hacking groups using it to deploy common malware like Tsunami and Mirai. Sentinel one has reported that “Observed exploit attempts in the wild thus far have led to commodity cryptominer payloads or other known and commodity post-exploitation methods. They expect further opportunistic abuse by a wide variety of attackers, including ransomware and nation-state actors.”
The latest apache update is available here. The SentinelOne blog is available here and Checkpoint blog is available here,
Whilst we are scrambling to stay on top log4Shell, a few exciting things have occurred in the world of Cloud Security as well, Ermetic announced a $70 million series B funding round. Their platform secures cloud infrastructure by focusing on identity security and reducing the attack surface across a multi-cloud deployment. The platform is expanding its support for Kubernetes container orchestration which they refer to like the fourth cloud. Learn more about Ermetic here.
And in other news Container and cloud security unicorn Sysdig scored $350 million in a Series G funding. This raises their total funding to $744 million and pushes valuation to $2.5 billion. Sysdig offers security and performance monitoring services tailored toward cloud-native applications and are looking to utilise the latest funding to accelerate the expansion of these services into new markets, increase its headcount and customer base, and invest in research and development. Learn more about Sysdig here
Google Cloud has released the Virtual Machine Threat Detection tool as part of their Security Command Center for Premium customer. According to Google’s blog this “is a first-to-market detection capability from a major cloud provider that provides agentless memory scanning to help detect threats like cryptomining malware inside your virtual machines running in Google Cloud.” For those familiar with AWS Guardduty, how does this compare - share with us on linkedin, twitter or on our website. You can read Google Cloud’s announcement here.
Being a Cloud Security Enthusiast, you are probably familiar with the Cloud Security Alliance, they are well known for defining standards, certifications, and best practices for security cloud environments. This week they have released DevSecOps - Pillar 4 Bridging Compliance and Development as part of the DevSecOps Six Pillars series. This document focuses on how compliance can be automated and better relate to security requirements. You can access the full document here. We would love to hear your thoughts about this pillar, so please share your views on www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Security Researcher Harsh Jaiswal received a bounty award of $17,576 for whats been described as a “pretty simple” but critical SSRF related to HelloSign’s Google Drive Docs export feature.You can read more about the security team’s response here and the vulnerability report here.
Cloudflare, a Silicon Valley provider of content delivery network (CDN) and DDoS mitigation services has launched a public bug bounty program, further to their invite-only program in place since 2018. You can find out more about the program here
Tenable, a popular product for vulnerability scanning, has announced new features to their cloud native application security program, Tenable.cs. You can find our more about tenable and tenable.cs here.
Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters. You can read more about this here
UK Financial Regulators monitoring Cloud Providers Closely
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Cloud Security News this week 12 Jan 2022
UK’s financial regulators - The Prudential Regulation Authority is looking to increase it’s monitoring of Cloud providers like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. According to Financial times, they are looking to gain more access to data from these cloud providers because the impact outages and cyberattacks have on British Banks. They are looking at implementing more robust outages and disaster recovery tests given the increasing reliance UK banks have on a handful of cloud providers. A lot of major British banks have partnerships with cloud providers “AWS has announced deals with Barclays and HSBC, while Lloyd Banking Group holds partnerships with Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.”. There is an increasing concerns about the impacts on the banks should these cloud providers experience outages. You can view the financial times article here
Speaking of regulators and how they are dealing with cloud providers, a few weeks ago in December Chinese regulators have “suspended an information-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud Computing” over concerns that it failed to promptly report and address a cybersecurity vulnerability. According to 21st Century Business Herald, citing a recent notice by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology “Alibaba Cloud did not immediately report vulnerabilities in the popular, open-source logging framework Apache Log4j2 to China's telecommunications regulator”.This comes after, according to Reuters “The Chinese government has asked state-owned companies to migrate their data from private operators such as Alibaba and Tencent to a state-backed cloud system by next year.” From what we understand, there is no statement from Alibaba Cloud on this yet. You can read more about this here.
If you use AWS, you may have noticed some issues with your services this week. AWS reported on Tuesday morning that they were seeing impacts to multiple APIs in the US-East 1 region. The issues were impacting their monitoring and incident response tooling impacting their ability to provide timely updates. A bit later they reported that they had identified the root cause of the issue causing service API and console issues. Root logins for consoles in all AWS regions were affected by this issue, however customers could login to consoles other than US-EAST-1 by using an IAM role for authentication. Services impacted include: EC2, Connect, DynamoDB, Glue, Athena, Timestream, and Chime. Most of the services have now recovered and all updates can be viewed here
Recently McAfee and FireEye announced the availability of new cloud security capabilities on Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as integration with the Amazon Inspector vulnerability management service. According to McAfee Enterprise and FireEye, their behavior analysis and machine-learning extended detection and response (XDR) capabilities combined with Amazon Inspector promises to deliver AWS customers greater visibility and protection of cloud-based applications and data.
The research team at LightSpin discovered that the Jupiter Notebook instance of SageMaker could reach the Notebook Instance metadata endpoint. For context, having access to the metadata endpoint and requesting access tokens from an over-permissive IAM Role is a very well known SSRF vulnerability in AWS. In this case, the research team reported their finding to AWS and this has been resolved since. You can learn more about this here
Zscaler, an American cloud-basedinformation security company known for their Zscaler private and internet access and now the creators of Zero Trust Exchange platform have now announced the general availability of its new Workload Communications solution, which is part of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange. This extends Zero Trust security to workloads and applications hosted in public cloud to eliminate attack surfaces, prevent lateral threat movement, inhibit compromise of workloads, and stop data loss. It also helps IT teams simplify multi-cloud workload connectivity by moving away from traditional IP-based routing and VPNs between cloud environments to expedite enterprises' cloud transformation initiatives. You can learn more about this here.
03 November, 2021 - AWS Earns over 16billion this quarter + SEGA on Microsoft Azure
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Cloud Security News this week 27 October 2021
In case you missed the quarterly earnings updates from last episode, I do encourage you to check it out to see how Google Cloud and Azure faired last Quarter. AWS came out still leading the pack $16.11 billion in the quarter, up almost 39% from a year ago. You can view the report here
Remote code execution vulnerability was patched by Gitlab in April 2021 however researchers from Rapid 7 recently found that the exploitations were continuing to this day, with only 21% of the instances fully patched against the issue. Gitlab strongly recommends updating to the latest version to remedy this. Read more about Rapid 7’s research here and Gitlab’s release here
IBM has released their report - Cloud’s Next Leap. They surveyed over 7000 executives in enterprise cloud adoption over 44 countries. 59% of organizations reported that digital transformation has accelerated for them through the pandemic. Not dissimilar to other reports this year, most of their respondents are also yet to fully realize cloud’s full transformational power. Hybrid cloud/multicloud once again is reported to be the dominant architecture for cloud service delivery. Something rather interesting they reported on is that while many organisations are moving to the cloud, they are often moving to different versions of it.Report here
Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team has released Threat Horizon’s report this month. The report can be accessed here
Staying in theme with Google Cloud (which also happens to be our theme for this month at Cloud Security Podcast). This week they have reported a low severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's function. The attack uses unprivileged user namespaces and under certain circumstances this vulnerability can be exploitable for container breakout. You can find out more about this vulnerability here.
Azure has announced Azure Payment HSM in preview in East US and North Europe. You can find out more about it here.
Cloud Security Alliance’s Technology and Cloud Security Maturity report. You can read the entire report here.
Have you heard about the Internet Society or ISOC? Its one of the oldest global nonprofit with a goal of keeping the Internet as a force for good: open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy. The researchers at Clario recently discovered an open and unprotected Microsoft Azure blob repository containing millions of files with personal and login details belonging to ISOC members. A blob container named ISOC contained millions of json files that were structured to include login, password and email. Clario reported this to ISOC and the repository was subsequently secured. ISOC also confirmed that they have not seen any instances of malicious access to member data as a result of this issue. You can read more about this here.
Remote Access Trojans target Public Cloud Infrastructure
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Cloud Security News this week 19 Jan 2022
Cisco Talos Researchers have shared in a blog last week that a trio of remote access Trojans (RATs)—Nanocore, Netwire and AsyncRAT—are being spread in a campaign that taps public cloud infrastructure and is primarily aimed at victims in the U.S., Italy and Singapore. According to the blog “Threat actors are increasingly using cloud technologies to achieve their objectives without having to resort to hosting their own infrastructure,” and “cloud services like Azure and AWS allow attackers to set up their infrastructure and connect to the internet with minimal time or monetary commitments. It also makes it more difficult for defenders to track down the attackers’ operations.” Read more about this here.
Netskope also released a blog last week about Malwares. Interestingly their research which surveyed millions of users worldwide from January 1, 2020 to November 30, 2021 found that Cloud-delivered malware is now more prevalent than web-delivered malware, accounting for 66%, up from 46% last year. They also found that Google Drive is the top app for most malware downloads and Cloud-delivered malware via Microsoft Office nearly doubled from 2020 to 2021. Read the report here
Vulnerability in AWS’s cloudformation service that was discovered and shared by Orca Security. Orca Security confirmed that AWS completely mitigated within 6 days of their submission.If you want to know more about their discovery, you can read it here
The US government is reportedly reviewing the cloud computing arm of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba to determine whether or not it poses a risk to national security.” As reported by Reuters, the Biden administration launched the probe to find out more about how Alibaba Cloud stores the data of US clients including personal information and intellectual property and to see if the Chinese government could gain access to it. You can read Reuters report here
Sysdig’s platform who were recently valued at 2.5 Billion have expanded their cloud security offering to Azure Cloud aswell. . You can find out more about them here
Nick Frichette has reported a vulnerability that impacts Cloud Trail event logging service. Cloudtrail is what users use in AWS to monitor their API activity so that they can detect any suspicious activity and understand the impacts after a security event. The vulnerability discovered that there is a method to bypass CloudTrail logging for specific IAM API requests via undocumented APIs. . You can read more about this vulnerability here
Duo Sreeram KL and Sivanesh Ashok found a SSRF Vulnerability in GCP, which when exploited could make users click onto a malicious URL allowing attacks to gain control of an authorisation token and the user’s GCP projects.
CircleCI delivered and have released an incident report which details what happened, how to know if you were impacted, what may help your teams, what they learnt and what they will do next.
Orca security have reported that they found instances where different services were vulnerable to a (you guessed it) Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) attack. They shared that 2 of the vulnerabilities did not require authentication, meaning that they could be exploited without even having an Azure account.The vulnerabilities were found in Azure Twin Explorer, Azure Functions, Azure API Management Service and Azure Machine Learning Service. You can read their blog here to find out more
Techcrunch has reported this week that Dell has acquired an israeli cloud orchestration startup Cloudify for allegedly $100M. Cloudify helps with the management of containers and workloads across hybrid environments. Dell has not publically mad this announcement but Techcrunch has shared that they notice a form they have lodged to indicate this.
Google Cloud have reported that 3 security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel, each of which can lead to either a container breakout, privilege escalation on the host, or both.Google have shared that these vulnerabilities affect all GKE node operating systems and Anthos clusters on VMware node operating systems (COS and Ubuntu). Pods using GKE Sandbox are not vulnerable to these vulnerabilities. You can find out more about it here.
Safety detectives uncovered and reported on a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket that exposed over 1 million files - “The data we observed related to airport employees from different sites across Colombia and Peru, and there could be entities from other nations with exposed data on the bucket.” The full report can be viewed here.
Salesforce now requires all customers to use multi-factor authentication MFA in order to access Salesforce products. It's one of the simplest, most effective ways to prevent unauthorized account access and safeguard your data and your customers' data. Let us know what you think of this change and more on this can be found here.
Markets and Markets has shared that the “global cloud security market size is expected to grow from USD 40.8 billion in 2021 to USD 77.5 billion by 2026”. You can find out more here
Cloud security and compliance automation startup Anitian this week closed a $55 million Series B funding bringing their funding to date to $71 million. In a company blog CEO, Rakesh Narasimhan shared that the new funding is a significant milestone in accelerating their mission to provide the most innovative cloud security, compliance automation, and cloud security posture management (CSPM) platforms that enable enterprises of all sizes with the fastest path to security and compliance in the cloud. You can find out more about them here.
Check Point has acquired Spectral, an Israeli startup who have developer-first security tools designed by developers for developers. With this acquisition, Check Point extends its cloud solution, Check Point CloudGuard, with developer-first security platform, to provide a range of cloud application security use cases including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning and hardcoded secrets detection. Find out more here.
Early December on Cloud Security News, we shared that Symphony Technology Group had acquired McAfee for 4 Billion along with FireEye for 1.2 Billion. The merger of these two companies has now form Trellix, which aims to be a leader in extended detection and response (XDR). In their blog post Trellix shared that “Customers can expect Trellix’s living security platform to deliver bold innovation across the XDR market.” - “with automation, machine learning, extensible architecture, and threat intelligence.” You can find out more about Trellix and read their blog post here and let us know if you are excited about this merger?
Orca Security is back in the news this week, not for their funding round or their vulnerability findings in AWS. They have made their 1st acquisition: RapidSec, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that protects web applications from client-side attacks. RapidSec’s software allows for detection of web-application misconfigurations and deviations from best practices. Orca has indicated that it plans to integrate these web services and API security technologies into its agentless cloud security platform. You can read more about this acquisition here.
Cloud Security Firm Polar Security that has emerged from Stealth With $8.5 Million Seed Funding. They are a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cloud security company that aims to provide visibility into companies’ cloud data storage to allow security teams to secure the data and avoid compliance problems. You can find out more about them here
Hunters.ai announced that it has raised a $68 million Series C round bringing their total funding to date to $118 million. Hunters share in their blog that “Never before has it been more lucrative to be a cyber criminal” and “On the defenders’ side, we see organizations struggling to keep pace. As technology advances and more tools are being used, the attack surface grows and the number of security products used by these organizations increases.” This is where Hunter.ai believes they can help with their Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform used by Security Operations Center (SOC) teams to detect, investigate and stop threats. You can find out more about them here
14 October, 2021 - Google Cloud Next 21, Kubecon + VMworld
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Cloud Security News this week 14 October 2021
It's an eventful month for all things cloud as Google Cloud Next 21 and Kubecon are happening this week. Ashish from Cloud Security Podcast was co-hosting the Capture the Flag today with Magno Logan from Trend Micro, you can check it out here.
In next week’s episode we will be bringing to you the best bits from Kubecon and Google Cloud Next 21.
You can view these events virtually at the links below
Google Cloud announced the launch of Google Cybersecurity Action Team, a group of experts from across Google that will form what they believe is the world’s premier security advisory team. The role of this team would be to shape security transformation — from roadmap and implementation, through to responding to a major incident, to engineering new solutions.
Google invests in Security + Microsoft's Log4Shell Update
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Cloud Security News this week 5 Jan 2022
Google has acquired security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) provider, Siemplify. Neither company has disclosed any amounts however sources including Reuters report Google paid $500 million for Siemplify. Google has shared that Siemplify “will join Google Cloud’s security team to help companies better manage their threat response”. They shared in their announcement that “Providing a proven SOAR capability unified with Chronicle’s innovative approach to security analytics is an important step forward in their vision”. You can find more about this here
Microsoft in their updated Blog this week on this issue have noted “Exploitation attempts and testing have remained high during the last weeks of December”. They also stated that they had “observed many existing attackers adding exploits of these vulnerabilities in their existing malware kits and tactics, from coin miners to hands-on-keyboard attacks”. Microsoft mentions that “customers should assume broad availability of exploit code and scanning capabilities to be a real and present danger to their environments. And “this is expected to have a long tail for remediation, requiring ongoing, sustainable vigilance” . Microsoft have reported that the bulk of attacks have been related to mass scanning by attackers attempting to thumbprint vulnerable systems, as well as scanning by security companies and researchers. You can read their updated blog here.
Back in 2019 you probably heard about Autom Attack which targeted misconfigured docker APIs to gain network entry to set up a backdoor on the compromised host to do cryptomining. This cryptomining campaign has evolved in the last 3 years to improve on their defense evasion tactics to fly under the radar and avoid detection. You can see the blog and their findings here.
SEGA Europe have disclosed that they were storing sensitive data in an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. This was discovered during a cloud-security audit. Security Researcher Aaron Phillips with VPN Overview worked with SEGA Europe to secure the exposed data. You can view the full report here
Positive Security researchers have stumbled upon four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Teams. You can read more about the findings here and threatpost report here
Truffle Security has released an open source hacking tools called Driftwood designed to discover leaked, paired private and public keys which may be harmful. Driftwood builds upon Truffle Hog and is available on Github. Truffle Security in their blog which is shared here. stated that With this tool they found the private keys for hundreds of Transport Layer Security certificates, and Secure Shell keys that would have allowed an attacker to compromise millions of endpoints/devices.
The Federal government is going from a “Cloud First” to a “Cloud Smart” strategy to leverage cloud without compromising security. They quoted that “Cloud Smart is about equipping agencies with the tools and knowledge they need to make these decisions for themselves, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.The shift will be from “buy before build” to “solve before buy,”. Under security they added that “Successfully managing cloud adoption risks requires collaboration” leaning into that shared responsibility model we hear often about with Cloud Security. The link to the document is here
Lenovo has launched Global Everything-as-a-Service Strategy, bringing all of its as-a-Service offerings under one umbrella that makes everything from the pocket to the cloud available via a single contract framework.
Read more about it here
This week, the world of cybersecurity has been consumed by the Log4Shell vulnerability. So whats it all about. Log4j is a Java library for logging error messages in applications. It was developed by the open-source Apache Software Foundation and is a key Java-logging framework. The critical zero day security vulnerability has been named ‘Log4Shell’ and has a maximum CVSS ( Common Vulnerability Scoring System ) score of 10. The zero-day had been exploited at least nine days before it surfaced on Thursday. This vulnerability puts any device connected to the internet and running Apache Log4J, versions 2.0 to 2.14.1.at risk. This impacts cloud services, developer services, security devices, mapping services, and more.
AWS has released details on how the flaw impacts its services and said it is working on patching its services that use Log4j and has released mitigations for services like CloudFront. This can be viewed here. Microsoft has also released Guidance for preventing, detecting, and hunting for Log4j exploitation here and Google cloud is also “is actively following the security vulnerability” and has released recommendations for investigating and responding to the Apache “Log4j 2” vulnerability here IBM said it is "actively responding" to the Log4j vulnerability across IBM's own infrastructure and its products, can be found here and Oracle has issued a patch too here. There is a comprehensive list of all known softwares vulnerable and not vulnerable to LogShell is available on GitHub along with any known fixes. Here
This vulnerability is being exploited to install malware, crypto mining, perform DDOS attacks, drop Cobalt Strike beacons, scan for vulnerable servers and exfiltrate information.
To finish on a note other log4J - Have you heard about Dazz? Well if you haven't, they are a one-year old cloud security remediation startup that recently closed another round of funding and raised 60 million dollars. Dazz is looking to automate cloud security through their AI driven product in a developer friendly way. You can find out more about them hereEpisode Show Notes on Cloud Security Podcast Website.
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