Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

My favorite quotes from the report follow below: “ Credential abuse resulting in cryptomining remains a persistent issue , with threat actors continuing to exploit weak or nonexistent passwords to gain unauthorized access to cloud instances, while some threat actors are shifting to broader threat objectives.” [ A.C. — the

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2023

A threat actor with a history of targeting Microsoft servers has recently gained control over virtual machines (VMs) and installed third-party remote management software within clients’ cloud environments. The post Microsoft VMs hijacked in cloud Cyber Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2022

Researchers from ESET discovered a previously undetected macOS backdoor, tracked as CloudMensis, that targets macOS systems and exclusively uses public cloud storage services as C2. CloudMensis was developed in Objective-C, the samples analyzed by ESET are compiled for both Intel and Apple architectures. .

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 10, 2023

But with the range of cloud-based security solutions available today, there doesn’t have to be an underlying fear of losing sensitive information or assets – not with the right solution and partner.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2023

A flaw in Microsoft Azure could be exploited by attackers to gain access to storage accounts, perform lateral movements, and even execute remote code. Researchers from the security firm Orca demonstrated how to abuse Microsoft Azure Shared Key authorization to gain full access to storage accounts and potentially critical business assets.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 27, 2022

Amazon’s object storage service, S3, was one of the key drivers behind the cloud revolution and has brought us everything from Pinterest to COVID-19 case …. The post Introducing Cyral’s S3 Browser appeared first on Cyral. The post Introducing Cyral’s S3 Browser appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2023

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Anton on Security

OCTOBER 17, 2022

This requires only a moderate cloud and data analytics expertise which can be readily sourced if not available in-house. Big cost savings come from keeping the data compressed in an inexpensive data storage system such as Google Storage nearline or similar. Use cheap (eh…not for petabytes) intermediate storage?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 31, 2023

As part of the Cybersecurity Insiders Product Review series, we are today reviewing Trend Cloud One, a comprehensive and powerful cloud security platform for developers, security teams, and businesses.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Public-facing cloud storage buckets are a data privacy nightmare, according to a study released today. ” Also read: Cloud Bucket Vulnerability Management. Also read: Cloud Security: The Shared Responsibility Model. ” Also read: CNAP Platforms: The Next Evolution of Cloud Security. A Data-Centric View.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The movement to the cloud means access to data anywhere, enhanced data recovery, flexibility for collaboration, and less of a burden on IT staff. But, while cloud providers boast that their storage services — or “buckets” — offer added application security , they have also consistently proven vulnerable.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2021

While many cybersecurity vendors approach zero trust from the perspective of microsegmentation , shrinking the network as much as possible, one startup thinks security needs to be as close to the data as possible and is thus focused on data storage. “With microsegmentation, you’re just making a smaller perimeter,” he said.

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NetSpi Executives

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Remediation Tip “Fine-grained access controls should be implemented to properly attribute authorization of records/objects as well as functions to the individually authenticated and authorized user.” Cloud: Publicly Available Resources Hosting Sensitive Data A publicly available cloud resource allows public, anonymous access.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In the digital era, cloud computing has become synonymous with agility and scalability for businesses and individuals. However, critical security risks and threats inherent in cloud environments come alongside the myriad benefits. Who’s Responsible for Security in the Cloud?

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2021

. “In some cases, attackers have been observed using legitimate object storage buckets, allowing them to appear less malicious by having users navigate to a known domain name, i.e., Google Firebase.” ” RiskIQ spotted more than seven hundred unique domains running with LogoKit in the last thirty days.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

In this era of the cloud, the big cloud providers take care of the underlying infrastructure. All that is needed is a connection to the cloud. For example, snapshots have been used to improve recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs). RPOs are measured in seconds.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 29, 2022

The purpose of this document is to provide the reader with a high-level overview of cloud delivery models, introduce the different deployment scenarios in which cloud services can be operated in, and highlight the risks to an organization when deploying and operating a cloud environment. Primary cloud delivery models include: .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Here, cloud computing technology can help as most CSPs offers object storage that is compatible to work with most backup software products and services. Mind you, there are very rare instances where hackers got sophisticated to attack stored data on an object storage platform.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 28, 2021

The product release is happening through Kasten business and K10 happens to be a cloud based backup and disaster recovery software that offers business continuity to Kubernetes environments. Other cloud platforms, such as Amazon S3, MinIO and Scality, also support immutability and so v4.0 version of K10 software.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2021

Misconfigured cloud-based databases continue to cause data breaches, millions of database servers are currently exposed across cloud providers. Fugue’s new State of Cloud Security 2020 report reveals that misconfigured cloud-based databases continue to pose a severe security risk to organizations.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 17, 2022

When migrating from a cloud-based SIEM “A” to another cloud-based SIEM “B”, you have to contend that data is not easily transferable across SIEMs and/or that there will be significant data retention costs with the old SIEM (if you keep it up even without any new log collection). Use cheap (eh…not for petabytes) intermediate storage?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

Data storage: Identify whether your organization’s data storage is on-premises or cloud-based. Analyze the storage’s security protocols and scalability. Encrypt data at rest with encryption algorithms and secure storage techniques.

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NetSpi Technical

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This scalable service is well suited for high performance computing (HPC) applications, and easily integrates with the Storage Account service to support processing of large data sets. The nice thing about the option is that it will generate the Storage Account SAS tokens for you. PSPath -FilePath (-join($_.PSChildName,'.pfx'))

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

You must know which workloads and storages you have and where, how much performance you require to run production, and which data should be available in any case. Ensuring tight RPOs means running more frequent backup workflows and increasing backup storage space.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 16, 2022

Thales Cyber Packs are holistic, cloud-based solutions that help organizations to increase their cyber security postures using the following foci: Discover – Quickly find and categorize data. Cloud Security. Fortunately, those organizations can draw upon four new Thales “Cyber Packs”. What Are Cyber Packs?

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 28, 2022

As the year is coming to an end, I can’t help but take a walk down memory lane to reminisce and reflect on the journey of the cloud threat landscape. Here’s my take on this 2022 recap of cloud threats. Particularly the cloud threat landscape, it truly feels like the massive potholes in front of my home.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 20, 2021

The widespread adoption of public cloud services has made it easier than ever to move data between different geographic regions. Security and cloud teams must now take additional steps to understand their data and demonstrate that they manage it in a GDPR-compliant manner. By default, the public cloud operates as a borderless entity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 9, 2022

With the increase in adopting cloud services, the distribution tends to be complex and ephemeral. A Cloud Journey Filled with Oversights. Most organizations already faced a version of this challenge when they began adopting more cloud services and applications over a decade ago. This new reality requires new tools.

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SecureList

APRIL 22, 2024

Ngrok agent and Krong Another way the attackers accessed the remote infrastructure was by tunneling to a legitimate cloud provider. An application running on the user’s host with access to the local infrastructure can connect through a legitimate agent to the cloud and redirect traffic or run certain commands. tcp.ap.ngrok.io:21146

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Business Objectives Business objectives define the goals of an organization beyond simple financial measures of sales and profit. What objectives deliver maximum value to shareholders? For example, a clothing brand might select a business objective such as to develop unique and appealing designs.

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

. “What makes BIOPASS RAT particularly interesting is that it can sniff its victim’s screen by abusing the framework of Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio, a popular live streaming and video recording app, to establish live streaming to a cloud service via Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP).

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McAfee

APRIL 6, 2020

Moving to a cloud-native architecture for your enterprise applications can deliver tremendous business value, adding scale and agility while off-loading onerous tasks like patching and upgrading server infrastructure. . However, in every cloud environment, whether AWS, Azure, GCP or others, there is a new category of risk.

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SecureList

MAY 19, 2023

It supports four different communication types: Cloud storages: OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive Web-based C2 server The primary cloud storage is OneDrive, while Dropbox and Google Drive are used if OneDrive becomes inaccessible. These commands likely include new cloud storage tokens.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 28, 2024

Searching the Object ID in Entra reveals the “blogASR-c99-asr-automationaccount” Enterprise Application. Contributors have read/write access to Cloud Shell images in which they can inject the image with malicious commands and upload the modified image which will execute those commands in the context of that user.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Broken Object Level Authentication (BOLA). APIs with broken object level authentication allow attackers to easily exploit API endpoints by manipulating the ID of an object sent within an API request. These include incomplete configurations, misconfigured HTTP headers, verbose error messages, open cloud storage, and more.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud exposures. Related: The importance of basic research. megabytes of fresh data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

To achieve its goal, the EO sets forward specific requirements: “The Federal Government must adopt security best practices; advance toward Zero Trust Architecture ; accelerate movement to secure cloud services” [Section 3(a)]. develop a Federal cloud-security strategy and provide guidance to agencies accordingly” [Section 3(c)(i)].

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