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I am receiving this notification from the Defender "Insecure SSH private key"
Defender for Servers found a plaintext SSH private key that is part of a pair. It is important to secure the private key to avoid its misuse or leakage.
But on the Affected resources there is no result, please check the screenshot.
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@Pradeep Khantwal Thank you for reaching out to us, could help us with the screenshot of the above mentioned issue for reference.
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I also receive such notification:
Title: Unverified insecure SSH private key
Text: Defender for Servers found a plaintext SSH private key that is part of a pair. It is important to secure the private key to avoid its misuse or leakage. In addition to detecting SSH private keys, the agentless scanner verifies whether they can be used to move laterally in the network. Keys that cannot be verified are categorized as unverified.
but where these keys have been found??? I check all user profiles on the server and found nothing
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Can you go into Cloud Explorer and search for SSH Cloud Keys
you get the list of items and can understand if it's true positive or not