Evading Logging in the Cloud: Bypassing AWS CloudTrail

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers rely on CloudTrail for continuous monitoring and detection of security incidents within their cloud environments. But what if an attacker could bypass this vital security layer, conducting stealthy reconnaissance and even modifying the environment without leaving any log evidence?In this talk I will explore the attack surface of the AWS API, and share multiple vulnerabilities I discovered that allowed me to bypass CloudTrail logging for different AWS services. These vulnerabilities have now been fixed by AWS.Attendees will gain an understanding of how these vulnerabilities are found, an understanding of the internals of the AWS APIs, and knowledge of how to apply these methods to new CloudTrail bypasses.