AWS Cloud metadata service abuse

A few weeks ago, I presented an internal meetup to the pentesters of my company on how they could take advantage of weak or poorly configured IaaS metadata services. The end of the presentation was backed by an interactive CTF-like workshop that I have setup based on the work from Avishay Bar from CyberArk. While some suggestions from the workshop have been merged into the master, the complete lab is available on the forked version of the original repository available on my Github account.…

Mining on AWS

WARNING: THE METHOD DESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE IS ONLY TARGETING PEOPLE WHO HAVE AWS CREDIT TO LOOSE, DON’T USE IT WITH PROFITS IN MIND Considering cloud instances are usually expensive, and price of cryptocurrencies ( and especially the ones that are still minable with CPU and GPU ) are collapsing lately, most of you must think I’m turning mad. And, indeed, the target of this walkthrough is absolutely NOT BEING PROFITABLE.…