In this post, Unit 42 researchers reseat examine lateral movement techniques, showcasing some that they have observed in the wild within cloud environments.
Lateral movement can be achieved by leveraging both cloud APIs and access to compute instances, with access at the cloud level potentially extending to the latter. We explore cloud lateral movement techniques in all three major cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, highlighting their differences compared to similar techniques in on-premises environments.
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Source: Palo Alto Unit 42