tl;dr NCC Group and Fox-IT have been tracking a threat group with a wide set of interests, from intellectual property (IP) from victims in the semiconductors industry through to data from the airline industry. In their intrusions they regularly abuse cloud services from Google and Microsoft to achieve their goals. NCC Group and Fox-IT observed … Continue reading Abusing cloud services to fly under the radar
Principal Mapper, or PMapper, is a tool and library for in-depth analysis with AWS Identity and Access Management, as well as AWS Organizations. PMapper stores data about AWS accounts and organizations, then provides options to query, visualize, and analyze that data. The library, written in Python, enables users to extend PMapper’s functionality for other use-cases. … Continue reading Tool Release – Principal Mapper v1.1.0 Update
This month, members of NCC Group will be presenting their work at the following conferences: Sourya Biswas, “Cybersecurity is War: Lessons from Historical Conflicts,” to be presented at BSidesCT (Virtual – November 14 2020) Ian Coldwater (Independent), Duffie Cooley, Brad Geesaman (Darkbit), and Rory McCune (NCC Group), “Keynote: SIG-Honk AMA Panel: Hacking and Hardening in … Continue reading Conference Talks – November 2020
NCC Group will be presenting 4 different training courses at Black Hat USA 2021. Below you will find high level details about each course, as well as a link to a detailed course description and course registration details on the Black Hat website. Join us! Mastering Container Security V5 – Black Hat edition (August 2-3 … Continue reading NCC Group’s Upcoming Trainings at Black Hat USA 2021
We’re proud to announce the release of a new version of our open-source, multi-cloud auditing tool ScoutSuite (on Github)! Notable improvements and features include: Core Breaking change: support for Python 3.5 has been deprecated Moved unit tests from nose to pytest & improved coverage Bug fixes and improved error handling AWS Created a ruleset for the … Continue reading Tool Release – ScoutSuite 5.10
We’re proud to announce the release of a new version of our open-source, multi-cloud auditing tool ScoutSuite (on Github)! Since the release of 5.8.0 back in late March, we’ve had over 300 commits from 8 different contributors, and closed 30 PRs. Notable improvements and features include: AWS Added 4 new ELB and ELBv2 findings Added … Continue reading Tool Release – ScoutSuite 5.9.0
This month, NCC Group researchers will be presenting their work at the following conferences: Rami McCarthy, “AWS Security: Easy Wins and Enterprise Scale,” to be presented at BSides Boston (Virtual – September 26 2020) Dirk-Jan Mollema, “Walking Your Dog in Multiple Forests: Breaking AD Trust Boundaries through Kerberos Vulnerabilities,” to be presented at Black Hat … Continue reading Conference Talks – September 2020
On November 25th, AWS released the Ramp-Up Learning Guide for AWS Cloud Security, Governance, and Compliance. The Security Ramp-Up is a curated list of educational AWS resources. The goal is “to teach in-demand cloud skills and real-world knowledge that you can rely on to keep up with cloud security, governance, and compliance developments and grow … Continue reading The Extended AWS Security Ramp-Up Guide
This month, members of NCC Group will be presenting their work at the following conferences: Dirk-Jan Mollema, “Walking Your Dog in Multiple Forests: Breaking AD Trust Boundaries through Kerberos Vulnerabilities,” to be presented at Black Hat Asia 2020 (Virtual – October 1 2020) Sanne Maasakkers, “Improve Security Awareness Campaigns by Applying Phishing Research,” to be … Continue reading Conference Talks – October 2020
Unauthorised access to data is a primary concern of clients who commission a Salesforce assessment. The Salesforce documentation acknowledges that the sharing model is a “complex relationship between role hierarchies, user permissions, sharing rules, and exceptions for certain situations”[1]. It is often said that complexity and security are natural enemies. Salesforce empowers its users with … Continue reading Are you oversharing (in Salesforce)? Our new tool could sniff it out!
