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

Aqua Cloud Native Blog \ Tags: Vulnerability Management

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 …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Lucifer DDoS botnet Malware is Targeting Apache Big-Data Stack

Aqua Nautilus has unveiled a new campaign targeting Apache big-data stack, specifically Apache Hadoop and Apache Druid. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the attacker exploits existing misconfigurations and vulnerabilities within our Apache cloud honeypots to execute the attacks.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Snap Trap: The Hidden Dangers Within Ubuntu’s Package Suggestion System

Aqua Nautilus researchers have identified a security issue that arises from the interaction between Ubuntu’s command-not-found package and the snap package repository. While command-not-found serves as a convenient tool for suggesting installations for uninstalled commands, it can be inadvertently manipulated by attackers through the snap repository, leading to deceptive recommendations of malicious packages. Additionally, our …

CONTAINER SECURITY

AI-Guided Remediation: Unify Teams and Speed Vulnerability Resolution

The urgent need for rapid remediation The window of vulnerability after the discovery of a security issue has never been more critical than it is with cloud native applications. Why is that? Cloud apps move fast. With modern CI/CD processes, code can be pushed to production multiple times per day. This means that security gaps …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Zero-Day Attack Prevention Through Supply Chain Security

Supply chain security has made lots of headlines recently thanks to events like the SolarWinds breach. That and similar events highlight the importance of having a strategy in place to respond to zero-day attacks which can take advantage of vulnerable software components.

CONTAINER SECURITY

Establishing a Resilient DevSecOps Action Plan

DevSecOps is an easy term to toss around. But what does it mean, exactly? What actually goes into an effective DevSecOps strategy? And how do cloud and DevOps impact DevSecOps processes? To find out, I participated in a conversation with Merritt Baer, principal in the AWS Office of the CISO, to discuss the best ways …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Technical Review: A Deep Analysis of the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability

Dirty Pipe (CVE-2022-0847) proved that there is a new way to exploit Linux syscalls to write to files with a read-only privileges. The fact that someone can write to a file regardless of its permissions is a big security threat. An application of this vulnerability would be to write on the host from an unprivileged …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Kubernetes Version 1.26: An Overview

Kubernetes Version 1.26 was released with 37 new enhancements including 11 Stable, 10 Beta, 16 Alpha, and 12 features deprecated or removed. In this blog, we will highlight its most notable features and show how using Trivy will help you find deprecated Kubernetes resources.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Find the New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities with Trivy

Today, OpenSSL announced two new CVEs and mitigation recommendations. This blog provides guidance as to how you can identify the Open SSL vulnerability using Trivy. To both identify and mitigate the vulnerability, see this blog post Updated Security Advisory: New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities about mitigation with assurance policies in Aqua’s software supply chain solution.

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Vulnerability Scanning: Trivy vs the Trivy Operator

Over the past few months Aqua Trivy, the all-in-one cloud native security scanner, has rapidly grown in features and tapped into new use cases. In this blog post, we will explore

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

New for Trivy: CSPM Identifies Misconfigurations of Your AWS Services

Every cloud provider has different resources that require detailed understanding to scan for security issues. To make this easier, cloud providers offer built-in security scanners. However, those may often lack functionality and integration into your existing stack.

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Integrate OSS Container Vulnerability Data with Aqua and Sonatype Nexus

The rise in software supply chain attacks presents a profound challenge to the cornerstone of DevOps practices: the heavy use and reuse of open source software (OSS). Aqua Security extends visibility into risks across the software stack – and helps teams maintain a clear view into their software bills of materials (SBOMs) with the integration …

Page 1 of 312 3 Next ›

Need to secure enterprise workloads?

Aqua Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)

Go cloud native with the experts!

Get Demo

Aqua Security is the pioneer in securing containerized cloud native applications from development to production. Aqua's full lifecycle solution prevents attacks by enforcing pre-deployment hygiene and mitigates attacks in real time in production, reducing mean time to repair and overall business risk. The Aqua Platform, a Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), integrates security from Code to Cloud, combining the power of agent and agentless technology into a single solution. With enterprise scale that doesn’t slow development pipelines, Aqua secures your future in the cloud. Founded in 2015, Aqua is headquartered in Boston, MA and Ramat Gan, IL protecting over 500 of the world’s largest enterprises.

Read Aqua Security reviews on G2

Use Cases

Environments

Partners

Products

Get Started

Copyright © 2024 Aqua Security Software Ltd. Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | |