#Security
Bridging the Security Gap: Mitigating Lateral Movement Risks from On-Premises to Cloud Environments
This blog post will discuss lateral movement risks from on-prem to the cloud. We will explain attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for cloud builders and defenders to help secure their cloud environments and mitigate risk.
Exploitable and unpatched KeePass vulnerability: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2023-32784, a vulnerability in KeePass which allows the extraction of the master password in cleartext from the application's memory.
Top Security Talks from KubeCon Europe 2023
KubeCon Europe is the largest open-source community conference in Europe with hundreds of talks. We picked our favorite Kubernetes security sessions available online.
#BrokenSesame: Accidental ‘write’ permissions to private registry allowed potential RCE to Alibaba Cloud Database Services
A container escape vulnerability, combined with accidental 'write' permissions to a private registry, opened a backdoor for Wiz Research to access Alibaba Cloud databases and potentially compromise its services through a supply-chain attack
Microsoft April 2023 Patch Tuesday Highlights: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2023-28252, EoP vulnerability exploited in the wild, and CVE-2023-21554, a critical RCE vulnerability. Organizations should patch urgently.
Intro to forensics in the cloud: A container was compromised. What’s next?
Learn what tools and data sources you need to use in cloud forensics investigation and how they come into practice in a real-life example.
BingBang: How a simple developer mistake could have led to Bing.com takeover
How a misconfiguration in a Microsoft Bing.com application allowed Wiz Research to modify Bing’s search results – and potentially compromise the private data of millions of Bing users
BingBang: AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation and account takeover
How Wiz Research found a common misconfiguration in Azure Active Directory that compromised multiple Microsoft applications, including a Bing management portal
Using Service Control Policies to protect security baselines
Service Control Policies (SCPs) can be a great way to prevent actions from happening in AWS accounts. In this post, we will illustrate a specific use case of SCPs that protects the security baseline, or landing zone, configuration you’ve created for accounts
CVE-2023-25610 a critical RCE vulnerability in FortiOS: everything you need to know
CVE-2023-25610 is a critical RCE vulnerability in FortiOS. This vulnerability is a buffer underwrite bug in the administrative interface which could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute code using specially crafted requests. Affected customers should patch immediately.
From Pod Security Policies to Pod Security Standards – a Migration Guide
Pod Security Policies were removed in Kubernetes v1.25 — learn how to migrate from Pod Security Policies to Pod Security Standards
The benefits of a customer-centric cloud security mindset
Why a customer focus unlocks new levels of innovation and enables security team success
What are the biggest cyberthreats heading our way in 2023?
Wiz and Procter & Gamble experts share their security insights and tips
Lateral movement risks in the cloud and how to prevent them – Part 3: from compromised cloud resource to Kubernetes cluster takeover
In this third blog post, we will discuss lateral movement risks from the cloud to Kubernetes. We will explain attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for cloud builders and defenders to help secure their cloud environments and mitigate risk.
Ransomware attacks targeting VMware ESXi servers: everything you need to know
Recent attacks leverage CVE-2021-21974 to install ransomware on VMWare ESXi servers. Security teams are advised to patch and stay vigilant for indicators of compromise.
The State of the Cloud 2023
Wiz's State of the Cloud 2023 report provides analysis of trends in cloud usage such as multi-cloud, use of managed services and more. In addition, the report highlights notable cloud risks based on insights from 30% of Fortune 100 enterprise cloud environments
Enhancing Kubernetes security with user namespaces
Learn how to improve cluster security with user namespaces, a new feature introduced in Kubernetes v1.25.
CVE-2022-44877, critical RCE in CentOS Control Web Panel exploited in the wild: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2022-44877, a CentOS Control Web Panel (CWP) unauthenticated RCE exploited in the wild. Security teams are advised to patch urgently.
Hunting for signs of persistence in the cloud: an IR guide following the CircleCI incident
Learn how to detect malicious persistence techniques in AWS, GCP & Azure after potential initial compromise, like with the CircleCI incident
Lateral movement risks in the cloud and how to prevent them – Part 2: from compromised container to cloud takeover
In this second blog post, we will discuss lateral movement risks from Kubernetes to the cloud. We will explain attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for security practitioners and cloud builders to help secure their cloud environments and mitigate risk.
Malicious PyTorch dependency 'torchtriton' on PyPI: everything you need to know
The developers of PyTorch (a popular machine-learning framework) recently identified a malicious dependency confusion attack on the open-source project. Security teams are advised to check for infected resources and rotate any exposed keys.
CVE-2022-47939 critical vulnerability in Linux kernel `ksmbd` module: everything you need to know
Critical RCE vulnerability found in Linux kernel's `ksmbd` module: remote attackers can execute code without authentication. The module is not enabled by default on most operating systems.
OWASSRF, a new exploit for Exchange vulnerabilities, exploited in the wild: everything you need to know
A new exploit method targeting CVE-2022-41080 and CVE-2022-41082 vulnerabilities in Exchange servers, which can bypass previous workarounds, has been discovered and exploited in the wild. Organizations should patch urgently.
Use cases for Delegated Administrator for AWS Organizations
Learn about how AWS's recently released Delegated Administrator for AWS Organization can be used to solve common problems at your company and the issues you might run into with it.
Introducing PEACH, a tenant isolation framework for cloud applications
A step-by-step framework for modeling and improving SaaS and PaaS tenant isolation by reducing your cloud applications’ attack surface
CVE-2022-27518 exploited in the wild by APT5: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2022-27518, a Citrix ADC and Gateway unauthenticated RCE 0-day exploited in the wild by a nation state actor. Organizations should patch urgently.
Secret-based cloud supply-chain attacks: Case study and lessons for security teams
CI/CD pipelines, as an essential part of the software development process, are an attractive target to malicious actors. Based on our research of cloud environments, we share common misconfigurations and provide tips on how to remediate them in order to prevent supply-chain attacks.
Top Security Talks from AWS re:Invent 2022
AWS re:Invent is the largest conference of the year for Amazon Web Services (AWS) with hundreds of talks. We picked our favorite cloud security talks that are available online.
Hell’s Keychain: Supply-chain vulnerability in IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL allows potential unauthorized database access
How IBM Cloud caught us exploring its infrastructure and how a hardcoded secret eventually led to build artifact access and manipulation
OpenSSL vulnerabilities: Everything you need to know
On November 1st, 2022, the OpenSSL Project disclosed High severity vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602, affecting deployments of OpenSSL 3.0.0–3.0.6. Learn how to effectively manage your organization's patching efforts.
Lateral movement risks in the cloud and how to prevent them – Part 1: the network layer (VPC)
In this first blog post, we will introduce lateral movement as it pertains to the VPC. We will discuss attacker TTPs, and outline best practices for security practitioners and cloud builders to help secure their cloud environment and reduce risk.
AttachMe: critical OCI vulnerability allows unauthorized access to customer cloud storage volumes
Before it was patched, #AttachMe could have allowed attackers to access and modify any other users' OCI storage volumes without authorization, thereby violating cloud isolation. Upon disclosure, the vulnerability was fixed within hours by Oracle. No customer action was required.
The cloud has an isolation problem: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities affect multiple cloud vendors
How Wiz Research uncovered multiple related vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL-as-a-Service offerings from GCP, Azure, and others.
The cloud gray zone—secret agents installed by cloud service providers
Wiz Research builds upon previous “OMIGOD” findings with a presentation at RSA Conference 2022; details how cloud middleware use across cloud service providers can expose customers' virtual machines to new attack vectors
Securing AWS Lambda function URLs
Learn about the security risks of misconfigured Lambda function URLs and how to properly secure them.
Addressing the Spring4Shell and CVE-2022-22963 RCE vulnerabilities in cloud environments
Learn how to address Spring4Shell and CVE-2022-22963 RCE vulnerabilities in cloud environments.
5 reasons endpoint security agents are not enough
In this post, we discuss five security limitations of endpoint security agents and also explain how adding agentless solutions can improve your cloud environment security.
Towards a better cloud vulnerability response model
Who is responsible for doing what when a new cloud vulnerability is disclosed? Right now, it can be hard to know.
Log4Shell Meltdown: How to protect your cloud from this critical RCE threat
Log4Shell Meltdown: How to protect your cloud from this critical RCE threat. In this post, we’ll provide a quick overview of Log4Shell: what it is, its impact, and recommendations for security teams.
Security industry call to action: we need a cloud vulnerability database
In the pre-cloud era, the responsibility for security was fully in the hands of the users. As we uncover new types of vulnerabilities, we discover more and more issues that do not fit the current model. Solution: we need a centralized cloud vulnerabilities database.
How to Protect Your Cloud Environment from Supply Chain Attacks
Learn how to protect your cloud environment from supply chain attacks.