Hackers are quickly finding flaws in organizations' cloud infrastructure despite perceptions that the technology is ironclad against cyberattacks.
last month that the recent exposure of roughly a terabyte of Pentagon emails was likely due to a cloud configuration error.: "As more organizations are moving into the cloud, it becomes a much more attractive target for these threat actors, and they're spending more time and resources trying to get into that environment," Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, told Axios.
Subsequently, most organizations also fail to update their legacy cybersecurity tools to spot those cloud configuration errors, Meyers added.Many hackers are quickly building skills to target cloud storage because of how rewarding it can be. During traditional attacks targeting onsite servers, malicious hackers typically need their own port-scanning tools to detect what systems are in an enterprise and where the weak, exploitable spots are.
But during cloud attacks, those port scanners aren't needed, Meyers said. Malicious hackers who can navigate a cloud environment can use native tools inside the environment to more stealthily search and determine what data is available.of security: crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside," Meyers said.Attacks targeting the cloud still start in many of the same ways as on-premise attacks: using stolen employee login credentials.
For instance, cloud security firm Mitiga warned last week that when hackers use legitimate login credentials to break in, the Google Cloud Platform fails to record a proper activity log of the malicious actor's actions,As IT spending on the cloud continues to grow, organizations need to make sure they're also reviewing their security sets to ensure they can handle new, cloud-related obstacles.
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