Suspicious activity

Service account was created from a compute engine service account

Risk Level

Informational (4)

Platform(s)
  • N/A

Description

Orca detected that an API call to create service account was made from a compute engine service account, the operation was successful. This action may indicate of a presence of an unauthorized actor in the cloud environment, trying to establish a persistence mechanism in the cloud account, since this kind of action is not usually performed from internal service account.
  • Recommended Mitigation

    It is recommended to review the permissions which were used to make this api call. In addition, review the actions of the newly created service account.