Sink or Swim: Tackling 2024’s Record-Breaking Vulnerability Wave

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SECURITY RESEARCH

Sink or Swim: Tackling 2024’s Record-Breaking Vulnerability Wave

28,821 — that’s the number of vulnerabilities reported last year alone. With over 28,000 CVEs this year so far, 2024 is on track to set an even more troubling record. As cloud native technologies have become the backbone of modern IT infrastructure, these staggering figures highlight a growing and urgent threat. In this blog, we’ll …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Introducing VEX Hub:The Solution to Vulnerability Fatigue

VEX (Vulnerability eXploitability Exchange) is an emerging industry standard for communicating the relevance and impact of security vulnerabilities on software artifacts. This approach allows software maintainers to indicate when a specific vulnerability in a software dependency is irrelevant to their software due to the specific use case of that dependency. By conveying this crucial information …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Hadooken Malware Targets Weblogic Applications

Aqua Nautilus researchers identified a new Linux malware targeting Weblogic servers. The main payload calls itself Hadooken which we think is referring to the attack “surge fist” in the Street Fighter series. When Hadooken is executed, it drops a Tsunami malware and deploys a cryptominer. In this blog, we explain the malware, its components, and …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Embracing the Future: AWS Customers Leverage Fargate for ECS and EKS Deployments

As organizations advance in their cloud native journey, the adoption of AWS Fargate for ECS (Elastic Container Service) and EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) increases. Many customers begin their cloud journey with Amazon ECS, with around 65% of new AWS container customers opting for ECS. This popularity is driven by Fargate’s serverless compute engine, which allows …

SECURITY RESEARCH

PG_MEM: A Malware Hidden in the Postgres Processes

Aqua Nautilus researchers have uncovered PG_MEM, a new PostgreSQL malware, that brute forces its way into PostgreSQL databases, delivers payloads to hide its operations, and mines cryptocurrency. In this blog, we explain this attack, the techniques used by the threat actor, and how to detect and protect your environments.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Gafgyt Malware Variant Exploits GPU Power and Cloud Native Environments

Aqua Nautilus researchers discovered a new variant of Gafgyt botnet. This campaign is targeting machines with weak SSH passwords, executing 2 binaries from memory to increase the Gafgyt botnet and mine crypto currency with GPU power, indicating that the IoT botnet is targeting more robust servers running on cloud native environments. In this blog we …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Bucket Monopoly: Breaching AWS Accounts Through Shadow Resources

Security Threat

During February 2024, we discovered critical vulnerabilities in six AWS services. The impact of these vulnerabilities range between remote code execution (RCE), full-service user takeover (which might provide powerful administrative access), manipulation of AI modules, exposing sensitive data, data exfiltration and denial of service.

SECURITY RESEARCH

TrailShark: Understanding AWS API and Service Interactions

In this blog, we introduce TrailShark, a plugin that connects Wireshark with AWS CloudTrail logs. This open-source tool was developed as part of the “Bucket Monopoly” research, during which we identified six vulnerabilities in AWS by tracking service interactions and internal API calls. These vulnerabilities range from remote code execution (RCE) and full-service user takeover …

CONTAINER SECURITY, RUNTIME SECURITY

Go deeper: Linux runtime visibility meets Wireshark

Aqua Tracee is an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux, built to address common Linux security issues. Tracee’s main use case is to be installed in a production environment and continuously monitor system activity and detect suspicious behavior. Some alternative use cases which Tracee can be used for are dynamic malware analysis, …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Panamorfi: A New Discord DDoS Campaign

Aqua Nautilus researchers uncovered a new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign dubbed ‘Panamorfi’, utilizing the Java written minecraft DDoS package – mineping – the threat actor launches a DDoS. Thus far we’ve only seen it deployed via misconfigured Jupyter notebooks. In this blog we explain about this attack, the techniques used by the threat …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

The History of Kubernetes

Did you know that Kubernetes originally had no built-in features for managing user permissions, or that support for storing data persistently didn’t appear until Kubernetes was four years old?

SECURITY RESEARCH

Kubernetes Exposed: Exploiting the Kubelet API

Kubelet API is a vital component in Kubernetes clusters that manages pods and their containers on each node. While it is not typically intended for direct user interaction, many DevOps teams may utilize the Kubelet API for debugging and direct node communication. However, exposing the Kubelet API to the public internet while enabling anonymous unauthenticated …

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