Threat Alert: Monero Miners Target Cloud Native Dev Environments

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SECURITY RESEARCH

Threat Alert: Monero Miners Target Cloud Native Dev Environments

In September 2020, Aqua’s Team Nautilus detected a campaign that targeted the automated build processes of GitHub and Docker Hub. At that time we notified the affected services and they blocked the attack. Now, this campaign has resurfaced with vengeance. In just four days, the attackers set up 92 malicious Docker Hub registries and 92 …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Discover Security Risks with Starboard Extension for Lens Kubernetes IDE

When the Mirantis team announced the Lens Extensions API back in November 2020, we were excited to experiment with it and build an extension for Starboard, our open source Kubernetes native security toolkit. True to DevSecOps principles, the integration makes security reports accessible within Lens IDE, giving you immediate and actionable information about potential security …

COMPANY & CULTURE

Four Amazing Years at Aqua!

What were you doing four years ago? Perhaps in 2017 you were, like many people, entirely unaware of the way that containers and cloud computing would take the world by storm. Back then, there were companies just taking baby steps towards containerization – don’t feel bad if you were running one container per virtual machine, …

Cloud Native Forensics: Challenges and Best Practices

As no individual, business, or government is immune from being the victim of the next large-scale cyberattack, organizations need capabilities to help identify, contain, and investigate what seems like an inevitable incident. By performing forensic analysis, you can gain and leverage valuable insights to take the right steps to contain and mitigate the attack while …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Kubernetes Pod Security Policy Deprecation: All You Need to Know

To improve your Kubernetes security, you need to control and limit what pods can be created and deployed in your environment. For this, Kubernetes has provided a beta feature called Pod Security Policy (PSP), which soon will be deprecated and replaced with a standard called Pod Security Standards (PSS). In this blog, you’ll learn what …

Vulnerability Scanning for Kubernetes Applications: Why and How

If you’re looking to improve the security posture of your Kubernetes applications, you can get a lot of bang for your buck with vulnerability scanning. In this blog, I’ll talk about the fundamentals of scanning container images: how to pick a vulnerability scanner, when to use it in the application pipeline, and why you should …

SECURITY RESEARCH

TeamTNT Pwn Campaign Against Docker and K8s Environments

Last week, TeamTNT launched a new campaign against Docker and Kubernetes environments. Using a collection of container images that are hosted in Docker Hub, the attackers are targeting misconfigured docker daemons, Kubeflow dashboards, and Weave Scope, exploiting these environments in order to steal cloud credentials, open backdoors, mine cryptocurrency, and launch a worm that is …

Acting on Cloud Native Security Data with Splunk

With no shortage of attacks targeting the cloud native stack, having a holistic view of your environment is paramount to contain and mitigate the attack, as well as to perform forensic analysis after the fact. In order to provide you with deeper insights into malicious and suspicious activity in your cloud native environment, we joined …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Automating Configuration Auditing with Starboard Operator By Aqua

Back in November 2020, we introduced the Starboard Operator, which automates vulnerability scanning in a Kubernetes environment. We’re now pleased to announce the latest release (release v0.9) which adds configuration auditing using Polaris. This means that the Operator can automatically check for weaknesses in the way your Kubernetes workloads are configured, as well as scan …

SECURITY RESEARCH

CVE-2021-3156 sudo Vulnerability Allows Root Privileges

A new severe vulnerability was found in Unix and Linux operating systems that allows an unprivileged user to exploit this vulnerability using sudo, causing a heap overflow to elevate privileges to root without authentication, or even get listed in the sudoers file. In this blog, I’ll go over how this CVE can be exploited, what …

The Essential Guide to CSPM: Improve Your Cloud Security Posture

With 175 different services available on AWS alone, many enterprises are struggling to protect their large and increasingly complex cloud environments. To operate efficiently at scale, you need to continuously find and fix security issues across your entire cloud infrastructure. That’s where the concept of Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) comes into play.

CONTAINER SECURITY

Boosting Container Security with Rootless Containers

If there is a single best practice for container security, it is to avoid running containers as root. Rootless containers are making this much easier – almost effortless, even. In this blog, I’ll talk about why you should be avoiding root in containers, what rootless containers are, and how they are going to help.

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