Feds go "Cloud Smart"+ Alibaba Cloud targeted by Hackers

<p>Cloud Security News this week 17 November 2021</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cryptojackers-disable-alibaba/"><u>According to a research by Trend Micro, Elastic Computing Service (ECS) instances for Alibab Cloud are becoming an increasingly common target for financially motivated hackers with cryptomining goals. </u></a>This increased targeting may be due to a few unique features of Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba ECS instances come with a preinstalled security agent and provides root access/ privileged control by default. There is a detailed article attached about this <a href="https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/21/k/groups-target-alibaba-ecs-instances-for-cryptojacking.html"><u>here</u></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/jupiterone-and-cisco-announce-launch-of-secure-cloud-insights"><u>JupiterOne (a </u></a><a href="https://jupiterone.com/"><u>Cyber Asset Management Platform</u></a> ) <a href="https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/jupiterone-and-cisco-announce-launch-of-secure-cloud-insights"><u>and Cisco have announced &nbsp;the launch of Secure Cloud Insights, an expanded cloud security and security operations partnership designed to provide businesses with a range of cybersecurity services. This new solution is aimed at &nbsp;helping Cisco customers achieve a higher level of maturity with their digital transformation and security program. </u></a>CEO of Jupiter One, Erkang Zheng calls it a game changing offering - that would provide increased visibility, efficiency, and speed to security operations, with combined context from situational awareness and structural data. We would be curious to know if you think the same.</li> <li><a href="https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/693130/palo-alto-software-advances-end-to-end-enterprise-cloud-security/"><u>Those familiar with Palo Alto and their core cloud-security package, Prisma may be intrigued to know that they have launched Prisma 3.0.&nbsp;</u></a></li> <li>Truffle Security has released an open source hacki