Breaking the Cloud Layer - Modern and Practical Attacks on AWS, Azure, GCP, Aliyun, Railway and Vercel

DefCon 34 @ USA 2026

10 August 2026

Date: August 10–11, 2026 | 2 Day Training
Time: 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: Las Vegas Convention Center W208
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Format: 2 Day Hands-on Training
Instructors: Anant Shrivastava (Founder, Cyfinoid Research), Riyaz Walikar

Course Overview

A completely hands-on, scenario-driven, multi-cloud offensive training where students learn how attackers discover, pivot, and gain control across legacy cloud environments like AWS, Azure, GCP, and Aliyun and modern developer platforms like Railway and Vercel — using real-world exploit chains instead of provider-specific theory.

Participants deploy vulnerable but realistic targets into their own cloud accounts using provided Terraform projects, then execute guided attack scenarios including OSINT-driven cloud reconnaissance, storage and artifact exposure, SSRF against metadata services, credential harvesting, IAM privilege escalation, serverless abuse, managed database access, container and Kubernetes pivots, and cross-platform compromise through developer platforms and CI/CD integrations.

Each attack scenario mirrors techniques used by real adversaries and is paired with concise defensive guidance so participants leave with practical attack playbooks and actionable hardening strategies.

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