This is a story of network segmentation and the impact that seemingly trivial misconfigurations can have for your organization. This is one of those occasions.
This particular pen test asked for goals-based assessment focusing on post-compromise activities — an attempt by the client to discover how vulnerable internal systems were to lateral movement by an attacker who had compromised the domain. Among the goals was a request to attempt to compromise the client’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure and a secondary request to access and exploit any systems discovered to contain sensitive or critical operational data .
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Source: Rapid7
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