Fortune 1000 CISOs: Active Protection is Key to Cloud Native Security

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Fortune 1000 CISOs: Active Protection is Key to Cloud Native Security

What is the CISO approach to securing cloud native applications? Our recent survey of CISOs at Fortune 1000 companies gives a view into their perspectives on the critical security capabilities that allow for speed and agility while reducing friction between teams and preserving business continuity. According to the research results, CISOs are concerned with stopping …

Securing at Cloud Native Pace with Aqua Terraform Provider

At Aqua, we believe that cloud native is an opportunity to do security right. With the release of our Terraform Provider, we’ve added another tool to do security the cloud native way. With Aqua Terraform Provider, security teams can easily adopt DevOps processes and infrastructure as code (IaC) to consistently automate how they deploy and …

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What’s New in Kubernetes Version 1.24

With another Kubernetes release upon us, there are, as ever, a load of new features to consider. These include features to help companies use Windows containers securely and improvements in Kubernetes’ supply chain security. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the more significant features of this release.

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Hunting Rootkits with eBPF: Detecting Linux Syscall Hooking Using Tracee

Today, cloud native platforms are increasingly using eBPF-based security technology. It enables the monitoring and analysis of applications’ runtime behavior by creating safe hooks for tracing internal functions and capturing important data for forensic purposes. Tracee is an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux that is powered by eBPF and is more …

SECURITY RESEARCH

2022 Cloud Native Threat Report: Key Trends in Cyber Attacks

As companies continue to adopt cloud native technologies at a rapid pace, an increasing number of cyber threats are targeting the cloud native environment. To defend against these threats, security practitioners must stay abreast of attackers’ evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures. For its 2022 Cloud Native Threat report, Aqua’s Team Nautilus analyzed attacks that were …

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Software Supply Chain Security with Trivy: Generating SBOMs

Trivy is an easy-to-use, comprehensive open source scanner that helps developers gain visibility into the software components used in their applications. With the growing awareness about supply chain security, software bills of materials (SBOMs) have become the standard for creating software inventory lists. To simplify this process, Trivy recently added support for generating SBOMs as …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Real-world Cyber Attacks Targeting Data Science Tools

Security Threat

With the accelerated move to the cloud, organizations increasingly rely on large data teams to make data-driven business decisions. In their job, data professionals are given high privileges and access to development and production environments. But what are the security threats that target data tools? And, more importantly, are organizations prepared to deal with these …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Kubernetes RBAC: How to Avoid Privilege Escalation via Certificate Signing

Following on from our previous post on the risks of privilege escalation in Kubernetes via the node/proxy resource, we’re going to take a look at how users who have rights to the certificate signing request (CSR) API in Kubernetes might be able to use them to escalate their privileges in a cluster. In addition to …

SECURITY RESEARCH

New npm Flaws Let Attackers Better Target Packages for Account Takeover

For the past few years, cybercriminals have been hijacking popular npm packages by taking over maintainers’ accounts. As part of our research at Team Nautilus, we discovered two flaws in the npm platform related to two-factor authentication (2FA). An attacker can use these flaws to target npm packages for account takeover attacks. We reported these …

SECURITY RESEARCH

New Zero-day RCE Vulnerability Spring4Shell: What You Should Know

A new critical zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Spring, a popular open source framework widely used in modern Java applications. The issue could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system. The vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2022-22965, and Spring has already released a patch.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Threat Alert: First Python Ransomware Attack Targeting Jupyter Notebooks

Team Nautilus has uncovered a Python-based ransomware attack that, for the first time, was targeting Jupyter Notebook, a popular tool used by data practitioners. The attackers gained initial access via misconfigured environments, then ran a ransomware script that encrypts every file on a given path on the server and deletes itself after execution to conceal …

SECURITY RESEARCH

CVE-2022-23648 in Containerd’s CRI Plugin Could Allow for Container Breakout

A recently discovered CVE in containerd allows attackers who can run a custom image in a cluster to break out to the underlying node and, in some cases, escalate privileges to cluster-admin level. This CVE is interesting for several reasons. First, the vulnerability shows up in the container image, not in the Kubernetes manifests, so …

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