Lateral movementAWS GuardDuty detects brute force attempts on an exposed instance with lateral movement risks
Risk Level
Hazardous (3)
Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks
- Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD) ,
- CCM-CSA ,
- cis_8 ,
- Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices ,
- GDPR ,
- HITRUST ,
- ISO/IEC 27001 ,
- Mitre ATT&CK ,
- New Zealand Information Security Manual ,
- NIST 800-171 ,
- NIST 800-190 ,
- NIST 800-53 ,
- 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.
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