Escalating Privileges with Azure Function Apps

Explores hosting red team phishing pages and payloads on Azure services under Microsoft's trusted domains, using their good reputation to slip past web filters as domain fronting fades.

Outlines five cloud security challenges—shadow IT, attacker-defender resource asymmetry, catastrophic misconfigurations—and argues purpose-built cloud penetration testing is the way to address them.

Compares cloud penetration testing across AWS and Azure, explaining the shared responsibility model and why platform-specific nuances matter for methodology and cloud security maturity.

Stolen Azure Container Registry admin credentials enable Docker login, image and tag enumeration via Registry REST APIs, and pulling containers to hunt secrets; MicroBurst's Get-AzACR automates it.

A follow-up to managed identity research showing how to collect Azure OAuth bearer tokens from the portal, CLI, managed identities, Automation RunAs, and Cloud Shell, with new MicroBurst scripts.

The Get-AzureVMExtensionSettings PowerShell script decrypts Azure VM extension settings stored on disk, potentially exposing sensitive parameters, storage account keys, and admin credentials.