Miscreants sure do love ransacking cloud networks, more so than before
that could be abused to achieve remote code execution on compromised VMware Workspace systems had a greater"impact" on cloud networks, Check Point said. By greater impact, we'll read that as: exploitation of this flaw against a cloud target caused more damage and disruption or more data to be stolen than what you'd typically see with on-prem systems.
That makes sense because, as we said, targeting cloud-hosted systems can affect a greater number of people due to the concentration of data and resources. Other programming blunders that had a greater impact against cloud systems when exploited include a Microsoft Exchange Server RCE flaw, a Text4shell RCE, and a F5 Big IP bug. Check Point said it came to these conclusions after studying stats from its IT defense products. "In cloud-based networks, some of this patching is done by the cloud providers, but it is still up to the network and security admins to make sure all their infrastructure is not vulnerable," Dembinsky said. And all that info of yours accessible via the cloud is too valuable for crooks to ignore, Tom Kellerman, senior vice president of cyber security at Contrast Security, told"Cybercrime cartels and rogue nation intelligence services appreciate that the future is island hopping, which lies in colonizing the cloud," he said."This also means that defense capabilities in cloud networks need to improve." It's befuddling that we aren't doing any better, security-wise, in the cloud than we did before the cloud According to Check Point, that means taking such steps as using zero-trust cloud network security controls, incorporating security and compliance earlier in the development lifecycle, avoid misconfigurations, and using tools such as an intrusion detection and prevention systems and next-generation web application firewalls.no one should be surprised that miscreants are increasing their attacks on cloud networks, adding that"organizations are using more cloud resources than ever before. Hackers have always gone to what's popular. That's never not been the case." What is surprising is that while there are attacks specific to cloud resources, most are the same as those perpetrated against on-premises systems, Grimes said. They include everything from social engineering and credential theft to unpatched software, overly permissive permissions, and misconfigurations. "Defenders don't have to learn something new," he said."The cloud is a new paradigm, but the way cloud resources are successfully attacked the most isn't. In that light, it's even more befuddling that we aren't doing any better, security-wise, in the cloud than we did before the cloud. You think we would have taken the lessons learned and then moved them to the cloud." ®
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