December 18, 2025

Real-World Lessons

TruffleNet and Cloud Abuse at Scale: An Identity Architecture Failure

The recent TruffleNet campaign, first documented by Fortinet, highlights a familiar and uncomfortable truth for security leaders: some of the most damaging cloud attacks aren’t exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities. They’re exploiting identity models that were never designed for the scale and automation of modern cloud environments. Nothing about this attack was novel. That’s precisely the problem. …