Mitiga in the News

Mitiga has uncovered potential hidden dangers in the Cloud Control Plane, with the company saying that there may be significant risk in cloud development caused by not recognising the differences between cloud and traditional definitions of common architecture terms.

The biggest risk in cloud development is not recognizing the differences between cloud and traditional definitions of common architecture terms. For example, imagine a system that is completely “firewalled off”—a firewall prevents any inbound or outbound connections from the machine.

Today, security researchers at cloud incident response provider Mitiga announced in a blog post they had discovered a “dangerous functionality” in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)’s control pane.

Mitiga has uncovered hidden dangers in the Cloud Control Plane, with the company saying that there is significant risk in cloud development caused by not recognising the differences between cloud and traditional definitions of common architecture terms.

A misconfiguration in Google Cloud Platform has been found which could give threat actors full control over a target virtual machine (VM) endpoint, researchers have said.

Today, security researchers at cloud incident response provider Mitiga announced in a blog post they had discovered a “dangerous functionality” in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)’s control pane.

A dangerous functionality could allow adversaries to remotely access a network deemed secure from outside intruders. Likely a common misconfiguration of Google Cloud systems could leave the network exposed to capable adversaries, researchers at Mitiga, a Cloud Incident Response Company, claim.

Cloud security vendor Mitiga discovered "dangerous functionality" in the Google Cloud Platform that could allow attackers to compromise virtual machines.

It’s well-known that zero-day vulnerabilities pose critical security risks until an effective patch is issued. But, patching a vulnerability doesn’t guarantee that an environment hasn’t already been exploited.