Cloud Security Hacking — AWS, Azure & GCP Vulnerabilities

Cloud Hacking — The Modern Attack Surface

Over 90% of organizations use cloud services. Cloud misconfiguration is now the #1 cause of data breaches.

AWS Common Vulnerabilities

Open S3 Buckets

# Check if bucket is public
aws s3 ls s3://company-name-backup --no-sign-request
# Downloaded: customer databases, source code, internal documents

High-profile leaks: Capital One (100M records), US voter data (198M records)

SSRF to Metadata

# If web app has SSRF vulnerability:
http://target/proxy?url=http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/
# Returns AWS access keys!

IAM Misconfiguration

# Overly permissive policies
{
  "Effect": "Allow",
  "Action": "*",
  "Resource": "*"
}
# This gives full admin access!

Azure Vulnerabilities

• 🔴 Exposed Azure Blob storage
• 🔴 Misconfigured Function Apps
• 🔴 Key Vault access policies too broad

GCP Vulnerabilities

• 🔴 Public Cloud Storage buckets
• 🔴 Exposed Firebase databases
• 🔴 Leaked service account keys

Cloud Security Tools

ScoutSuite         # Multi-cloud security auditing
Prowler            # AWS security assessment
CloudSploit        # Cloud security scanner
Pacu               # AWS exploitation framework

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