AWS

Cloud Security

S3 Bucket Misconfiguration and Data Exposure

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Abusing AWS Instance Metadata (IMDS) and SSRF

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AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Paths

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Serverless and Lambda Security Pitfalls

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AWS EKS Security: IRSA and Pod Identity

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AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies (SCP) Security

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Cloud Detection Engineering with CloudTrail and GuardDuty

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AWS Cognito Misconfigurations and Identity Pool Abuse

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Envelope Encryption and KMS Patterns

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Tools & Defense

AWS Security Fundamentals and Attack Techniques: IAM, S3, and the Metadata Service

A practical primer on attacking and defending AWS: IAM enumeration, S3 misconfigurations, IMDS abuse, and Pacu.
Cloud Security

AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Paths: From Low-Priv Credentials to Account Takeover

A practical look at common AWS IAM privilege escalation paths, PoC commands, and the blue-team controls that shut them down.
Cloud Security

Attacking and Securing Amazon S3: Buckets, Policies, and Presigned URLs

A practical guide to enumerating, exploiting, and hardening Amazon S3 buckets, ACLs, policies, and presigned URLs.
Cloud Security

Breaking Serverless: Attacking AWS Lambda from Event Injection to RCE

How attackers turn Lambda event injection into code execution and credential theft, and how blue teams stop it.
Cloud Security

Enumerating and Exploiting AWS with Pacu

A practical walkthrough of using Pacu to enumerate AWS identities, IAM permissions, and discover privilege escalation paths.
Cloud Security

Cloud Metadata Service (IMDS) Attacks via SSRF: Stealing Credentials and Defending IMDSv2

How attackers pivot from SSRF to cloud credential theft through 169.254.169.254, and how IMDSv2 and hop limits stop them.
Cloud Security

Cloud Logging and Detection: Attacking and Defending CloudTrail and GuardDuty

How attackers blind CloudTrail and evade GuardDuty, and how blue teams close the detection gaps.
Cloud Security

Attacking AWS STS, AssumeRole, and Cross-Account Trust

How sts:AssumeRole, weak trust policies, and missing ExternalId enable cross-account pivots, plus blue-team detection.