July 20, 2025

How to Hack Like a Ghost: Breaching the Cloud

36 minutes

Serves as a comprehensive guide to modern ethical hacking, with a strong focus on cloud environments and sophisticated offensive security techniques. It explores various attack methodologies, from initial reconnaissance and building anonymous hacking infrastructure using tools like Tails and bouncing servers, to exploiting vulnerabilities such as Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI). The text details how to infiltrate cloud services like AWS and Kubernetes, demonstrating privilege escalation, data exfiltration, and maintaining persistence within dynamic infrastructures. Furthermore, it touches upon discovering sensitive information through open-source intelligence and the nuances of exploiting CI/CD pipelines and data processing frameworks like Spark, ultimately aiming to access and understand critical organizational data, including email systems.

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