
Attackers used Qubole AWS credentials to raid customer clouds
From October 14 to 26 the actor assumed trusted roles, harvested secrets and downloaded S3 data from dozens of victims.
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From October 14 to 26 the actor assumed trusted roles, harvested secrets and downloaded S3 data from dozens of victims.

Operators used stolen IAM keys and public Cognito pools to hunt financial data, secrets, and account details.

AI agents inherit human privileges and face prompt-injection risks as enterprise proxies, per GTIG agent-based intrusions.

Attackers phished MFA codes, linked foreign projects to victim billing, and kept Gemini prompts hidden from the organization.

The modular console automates more than 80 modules that take one AWS identity's credentials and obtain another's.

Analyst says identity resilience is essential to recover operations after ransomware and outages.

Zenity showed one prompt could steal Bedrock AgentCore credentials and reach other agents in the account.
Zenity Labs showed one prompt could steal AWS AgentCore IMDS credentials and hijack regional agents.

SailPoint says most firms still govern AI agents with human-speed identity controls.
Disclosure: RCDevs WebADM 2.4.14 log viewer command injection yields code execution as uid 999.

A 2026 buyer's guide ranks Microsoft Entra ID the top cloud directory, ahead of JumpCloud and Okta Universal Directory.

Help Net Security lists October 6 cybersecurity job openings at NSA, Synopsys, BMO, and other employers.

Technical University of Denmark says hackers stole IAM data that may expose up to 200,000 current and former users.

A 2026 buyer's guide ranks SailPoint the top identity governance platform, with Saviynt and Entra ID Governance close behind.

A 2026 buyer's guide ranks 12 IAM products, favoring Entra ID and Okta for workforce identity.
OpenID Foundation white paper addresses identity management for agentic AI systems.

A 2026 buyer's guide ranks 12 IGA platforms, naming SailPoint best for large enterprise programs.

Guide proposes an IAM framework for AI agents, treating each agent as a governed non-human identity with scoped, expiring, auditable access.

Okta webinar says organizations should govern AI agents as identities to limit excessive access and shadow AI.

A 2026 ranking names Auth0, Microsoft Entra External ID, and Firebase Auth the leading authentication-as-a-service providers.

A 2026 ranking puts Microsoft Entra ID first among cloud directories, ahead of JumpCloud and Okta.

A high-severity flaw (CVE-2026-94384) in an AWS Lambda application could let attackers bypass IAM permissions and perform privileged cloud actions.

A design flaw in Google's Kubernetes Config Connector allows attackers with namespace access to take over an entire GCP organization using a single YAML file.

Aembit adds Okta Cross App Access so enterprises can govern AI agent access with existing identity.
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