Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign

An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services AWS customers using compromised Identity and Access Management IAM credentials to enable cryptocurrency mining. The activity, first detected by Amazon's GuardDuty managed threat detection service and its automated security...

Rapid7 MDR Supports AWS GuardDuty's New Attack Sequence Alerts

Co-authored by Yaron Kaplan and Gil Shamgar. AWS GuardDuty has introduced two powerful new alerts that enhance its threat detection capabilities: "Potential Credential Compromise" and "Potential S3 Data Compromise." These alerts go beyond traditional threat detection by focusing on attack...

Drs-Malware-Scan - Perform File-Based Malware Scan On Your On-Prem Servers With AWS

Perform malware scan analysis of on-prem servers using AWS services Challenges with on-premises malware detection It can be difficult for security teams to continuously monitor all on-premises servers due to budget and resource constraints. Signature-based antivirus alone is insufficient as moder...

Aws-Security-Assessment-Solution - An AWS Tool To Help You Create A Point In Time Assessment Of Your AWS Account Using Prowler And Scout As Well As Optional AWS Developed Ransomware Checks

Self-Service Security Assessment too l Cybersecurity remains a very important topic and point of concern for many CIOs, CISOs, and their customers. To meet these important concerns, AWS has developed a primary set of services customers should use to aid in protecting their accounts. Amazon...

Wiz CDR and Amazon GuardDuty: Contextualize and prioritize threat detection

Wiz leverages its leading Cloud Security Graph to help Cloud Defenders quickly understand, with the click of a button— what happened, where it happened, and how to respond...

Rapid7 at AWS re:Inforce: 2 Big Announcements

This year's AWS re:Inforce conference in Boston has been jam-packed with thrilling speakers, deep insights on all things cloud, and some much-needed in-person collaboration from all walks of the technology community. It also coincides with some exciting announcements from AWS — and we're honored ...

Better Together: AWS and Trend Micro

This post relays the latest threat detection tool innovation of AWS - Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection. This tool works closely with Trend Micro cloud solutions, providing another valuable layer of defense in our fight against a shared adversary...

SyntheticSun - A Defense-In-Depth Security Automation And Monitoring Framework Which Utilizes Threat Intelligence, Machine Learning, Managed AWS Security Services And, Serverless Technologies To Continuously Prevent, Detect And Respond To Threats

SyntheticSun is a defense-in-depth security automation and monitoring framework which utilizes threat intelligence, machine learning, managed AWS security services and, serverless technologies to continuously prevent, detect and respond to threats. You sleep in fragmented glass With reflections o...

Terraform AWS Secure Baseline - Terraform Module To Set Up Your AWS Account With The Secure Baseline Configuration Based On CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations

Terraform Module Registry A terraform module to set up your AWS account with the reasonably secure configuration baseline. Most configurations are based on CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations v1.2.0. See Benchmark Compliance to check which items in CIS benchmark are covered. Starting from v0.10.0...

AWS Security Hub and Deep Security

One of the biggest challenges in maintaining your security posture is visibility. You have security controls deployed throughout the stack, and each fo these tools is generating its own set of data points and has its own view of your deployment. Managing the multitude of alerts and events from...

The AWS Exploitation Framework: Pacu

Pacu is an open source AWS exploitation framework, designed for offensive security testing against cloud environments. Created and maintained by Rhino Security Labs, Pacu allows penetration testers to exploit configuration flaws within an AWS account, using modules to easily expand its...