Detects when the same GKE identity creates or modifies a Role or ClusterRole with high-risk permissions (wildcard access, RBAC escalation verbs, or access to secrets / privileged APIs) and also creates or patches a DaemonSet, Deployment, or CronJob within five minutes. This correlation is consistent with RBAC-based privilege escalation followed by payload deployment.

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Detects a single identity listing Google Cloud Secret Manager secrets across many distinct projects in a short window. ListSecrets does not return secret values, but sweeping many projects is a common reconnaissance step before targeted AccessSecretVersion calls. Legitimate workloads typically list secrets within one project or a small set of projects; cross-project bursts from one user and source IP are uncommon outside security tooling or compromise.

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