Lateral movement

AWS Guard Duty: Ec2 with UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/SSHBruteForce on an exposed instance with lateral movement risks

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Compliance Frameworks
  • Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD)
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  • CCM-CSA
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  • cis_8
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  • Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices
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  • GDPR
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  • HITRUST
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  • iso_27001_2022
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  • iso_27002_2022
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  • Mitre ATT&CK
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  • New Zealand Information Security Manual
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  • NIST 800-171
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  • NIST 800-190
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  • NIST 800-53
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  • UK Cyber Essentials

Description

Brute force attempts were detected by AWS GuardDuty service on the Internet facing EC2 instance {AwsEc2Instance} ({AwsEc2Instance.InstanceId}) with lateral movement risks. AWS GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity. The service detects a type UnauthorizedAccess:EC2/SSHBruteForce brute force attempt on an EC2 instance that Orca has identified as exposed to the Internet and poses a danger of lateral movement.