New attack technique: Inject a Malicious Startup Script into a Vertex AI Workbench Instance (gcp.execution.modify-vertex-notebook-startup)#798
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… AI Workbench Instance (gcp.execution.modify-vertex-notebook-startup) 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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Error: Error creating Instance: googleapi: Error 403: Notebooks API has not been used in project security-detection-reseach before or it is disabled. Enable it by visiting https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/notebooks.googleapis.com/overview?project=security-detection-reseach then retry. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry.
I think we need to mention this in the docs, or ideally print a nicer error message
Address PR feedback: warm-up fails with a 403 when notebooks.googleapis.com is not enabled. Add a note in the technique description so users know to enable the API beforehand.
…ify-gce-startup-script' into simon.marechal/gcp-execution-modify-vertex-notebook-startup # Conflicts: # docs/index.yaml
Re-run `make docs` to incorporate the base branch's idempotency update for modify-gce-startup-script while preserving the modify-vertex-notebook-startup entry from this branch.
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What does this PR do?
New attack technique:
gcp.execution.modify-vertex-notebook-startupMotivation
GCP parity with existing AWS attack techniques.
Test results
stratus detonate gcp.execution.modify-vertex-notebook-startupgoogle.cloud.notebooks.v2.NotebookService.UpdateInstanceappears in GCP Admin Activity audit logs (no audit log observed — may require non-default audit config for Notebooks DATA_WRITE events)Checklist