cloud-pentest

Cloud Security

S3 Bucket Misconfiguration and Data Exposure

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Cloud Security

Abusing AWS Instance Metadata (IMDS) and SSRF

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AWS IAM Privilege Escalation Paths

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Cloud Security

GCP Service Account Impersonation and Escalation

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Cloud Credential Harvesting and Secret Sprawl

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Cloud Security

Serverless and Lambda Security Pitfalls

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AWS EKS Security: IRSA and Pod Identity

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Azure Storage Accounts and SAS Token Abuse

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AWS Organizations and Service Control Policies (SCP) Security

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GCP Workload Identity and Cloud Functions Security

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GCP Organization Policy and IAM Conditions

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AWS Cognito Misconfigurations and Identity Pool Abuse

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Tools & Defense

Kubernetes Security 101: From kubectl to RBAC and Token Theft

A practical intro to Kubernetes security: kubectl, RBAC, service account token abuse, kube-hunter scanning, and how to defend.
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

Azure & Entra ID Attack Paths: Hunting Privilege Escalation with AzureHound

Advanced Entra ID attack paths: AzureHound enumeration, role assignment abuse, dynamic group injection, and OAuth consent grants.
Cloud Security

Abusing Azure Managed Identities: From IMDS Token Theft to ARM Takeover

How attackers steal IMDS access tokens from Azure Managed Identities and pivot into the ARM API, plus blue-team detection.
Cloud Security

GCP Privilege Escalation: Abusing Service Account Impersonation and IAM Misconfigurations

How attackers abuse actAs, setIamPolicy, and service account impersonation to escalate privileges in Google Cloud, with blue-team defenses.
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.