Abstract Security just published a blog this morning: Moving Laterally through Abuse of Managed Identities attached to VMs. The blog was written by Abstract’s ASTRO research organization.
The research talks about how to put some detection for some type of managed identity abuse. Since managed Identities are very useful tools for the proper functioning of an Azure environment, it becomes difficult in case there are multiple resources attached to a single Managed Identity.
This can lead to the abuse of managed identities. Even though detection may vary depending on environment. For example, there might be some script which uses managed Identities to access other resources like another Virtual Machine. Therefore, this detection is very generalized form of detecting some type of managed identity abuse.
You can read the blog post here: https://www.abstract.security/blog/moving-laterally-through-abuse-of-managed-identities-attached-to-vms
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Abstract Security Blog: How a single compromised VM can quietly inherit cloud trust and move across Azure w/out touching the network
Abstract Security just published a blog this morning: Moving Laterally through Abuse of Managed Identities attached to VMs. The blog was written by Abstract’s ASTRO research organization.
The research talks about how to put some detection for some type of managed identity abuse. Since managed Identities are very useful tools for the proper functioning of an Azure environment, it becomes difficult in case there are multiple resources attached to a single Managed Identity.
This can lead to the abuse of managed identities. Even though detection may vary depending on environment. For example, there might be some script which uses managed Identities to access other resources like another Virtual Machine. Therefore, this detection is very generalized form of detecting some type of managed identity abuse.
You can read the blog post here: https://www.abstract.security/blog/moving-laterally-through-abuse-of-managed-identities-attached-to-vms
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