Cybersecurity Blind Spots in IaC and PaC Tools Expose Cloud Platforms to New Attacks

November 25, 2024
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Cybersecurity Blind Spots in IaC and PaC Tools Expose Cloud Platforms to New Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new attack techniques against infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and policy-as-code (PaC) tools like HashiCorp’s Terraform and Open Policy Agent (OPA) that leverage dedicated, domain-specific languages (DSLs) to breach cloud platforms and exfiltrate data.
“Since these are hardened languages with limited capabilities, they’re supposed to be more secure than

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Cybersecurity Blind Spots in IaC and PaC Tools Expose Cloud Platforms to New Attacks

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