Digital Warfare Podcast Daily Brief June 18, 2026

The Digital Warfare Podcast · Jun 18, 2026 · 4m · transcript

Summary

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has identified a growing pattern of threat actors weaponizing cloud logging services to evade detection and maintain persistent surveillance within compromised environments. Attackers with sufficient permissions can stop log collection entirely, delete log storage destinations, manipulate encryption keys to render logs unreadable, or poison log files to destroy forensic evidence. Beyond evasion, attackers increasingly abuse logging systems for persistent visibility by configuring new log routes that silently stream real-time activity data, including IAM…