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Inside a Privilege Escalation Attack via Amazon Web Services’ EC2

Check Point sponsored this post. They use this to move laterally within a cloud environment and access sensitive assets.

In this attack, the attacker was able to log into the console using a low privilege user’s credentials.

Given that the stolen permissions of this user are not excessive, the attacker will attempt to escalate to a higher permission that has access to sensitive assets.

This post was sponsored by Check Point.Amazon Web Services is a sponsor of The New Stack.