New attack technique: Modify a GCE Instance Startup Script (gcp.execution.modify-gce-startup-script)#797
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…tion.modify-gce-startup-script) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… and make attack non-idempotent
… AI Workbench Instance (gcp.execution.modify-vertex-notebook-startup) (#798)
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What does this PR do?
New attack technique:
gcp.execution.modify-gce-startup-scriptMotivation
GCP parity with existing AWS attack techniques.
Test results
stratus detonate gcp.execution.modify-gce-startup-scriptv1.compute.instances.setMetadataappears in GCP Admin Activity audit logsChecklist