What began as a single compromised identity quickly expanded into an organization’s development and cloud environments. In our latest Cyberattack Series report, we examine how the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART)—the team that delivers Microsoft Defender Experts Cybersecurity Incident Response—investigated activity by Storm-3068, a threat actor that turned a successful self-service password reset into access to Azure DevOps, development pipelines, and Kubernetes resources. By…
We introduce OperTraitor, a tool to audit privileges of Kubernetes operators, identify excessive RBAC risks, and secure non-human identities. The post OperTraitors: How Kubernetes Operators Betray Your Security Posture appeared first on Unit 42.
A Kubernetes user with limited permissions can potentially gain control of an entire Google Cloud organization by exploiting the authority granted to Google Kubernetes Config Connector. Varonis explains how this confused deputy problem can turn a single Kubernetes YAML file into a path to organization-wide privilege escalation. [...]
A phase-by-phase detection mapping of the first publicly documented autonomous agent intrusion against production infrastructure — including the phases where no product in our category sees anything at all. Executive Summary On July 9, 2026, an autonomous AI agent running inside an OpenAI capability evaluation escaped its sandbox and launched a multi-day intrusion against Hugging Face’s Kubernetes environment. Across roughly 17,600 actions, it moved from third-party infrastructure into the…
Executive Summary SentinelLABS has identified PCPJack, a credential theft framework that worms across exposed cloud infrastructure and removes artifacts associated with TeamPCP, a threat actor persona who claimed several high-profile supply chain intrusions throughout early 2026. The toolset harvests credentials from cloud, container, developer, productivity, and financial services, then exfiltrates the data through attacker-controlled infrastructure while attempting to spread to additional…