HeadCrab: A Novel State-of-the-Art Redis Malware in a Global Campaign

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SECURITY RESEARCH

HeadCrab: A Novel State-of-the-Art Redis Malware in a Global Campaign

Aqua Nautilus researchers discovered a new elusive and severe threat that has been infiltrating and residing on servers worldwide since early September 2021. Known as HeadCrab, this advanced threat actor utilizes a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that is undetectable by agentless and traditional anti-virus solutions to compromise a large number of Redis servers. The HeadCrab botnet …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Kubernetes Benchmark Scans with Trivy: CIS and NSA Reports

One of Trivy’s core features is Trivy Kubernetes for in-cluster security scans of running workloads. This tutorial will showcase how to generate CIS and NSA reports both through the Trivy CLI and the Trivy Operator. Additionally, we will look at how users can add the Kubernetes Specification for their own Compliance Report format to expand …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

What To Know: A Summary of the Compliance Guide to SSDF

NIST has recently researched, defined, and released an entirely new standard for incorporating security into the software development lifecycle called The Secure Software Development Framework. It was uniquely designed to help address the tremendous gaps in software supply chain security that expose organizations to methodical attacks on an organization’s code, infrastructure, development toolchain, and dependencies. …

EXPERT INSIGHTS

Cloud Security Trends for 2023 Part Two

Last month Aqua published a blog with the predictions from our Nautilus security research team regarding trends and new threats we are watching for 2023. In case you missed it over the holidays, we’ve included a link at the end of this post – it’s definitely worth the read.

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Should You Use SLSA or CIS Software Supply Chain Security Guidelines?

With recent software supply chain attacks on the rise, CISOs being held personally liable, and the United States government requiring minimum security software standards for any products and services they procure, the development industry is refocusing on software development strategies that make security a priority. But with so many reputable sources creating guidance, which is …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Supply Chain Security: Shifting Left to the Golden Pipeline

According to an article in Security Magazine, 98% of organizations have been negatively impacted by a cybersecurity breach in their supply chain. Aqua’s 2021 Software Supply Chain Security Review notes that “attackers focused heavily on open source vulnerabilities and poisoning, code integrity issues, exploiting the software supply chain process and supplier trust to distribute malware …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Can You Trust Your VSCode Extensions?

Aqua Nautilus researchers have recently discovered that attackers can easily impersonate popular Visual Studio Code extensions and trick unknowing developers into downloading them. In original vulnerability research, we’ve uncovered a new attack method which could act as an entry point for an attack on many organizations. We’ve also discovered that some extensions may have already …

SECURITY RESEARCH

In-depth Analysis of the PyTorch Dependency Confusion Administered Malware

Recently, a dependency of the widely used PyTorch-nightly Python package was targeted in a dependency confusion attack, resulting in thousands of individuals downloading a malicious binary that exfiltrated data through DNS. The individual responsible for this attack claimed to be a security researcher whose research had gone awry. In this blog, we will provide an …

EXPERT INSIGHTS

Cloud Security Trends for 2023 Part One

As we think about what Cloud Native security will look like in 2023, we can’t avoid thinking about the old cat-and-mouse game cliché of cyber security. Every year new attacks emerge while new security solutions are created and old security fixes are upgraded. Threat actors constantly append new methods to the old ones, using them …

EXPERT INSIGHTS

Recent Verdict Against Uber CISO is a Game Changer

In early October, the US Department of Justice announced that a verdict had been reached in the case against former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan, finding him guilty of two counts associated with covering up a data breach at the company. What made the Uber data breach case particularly noteworthy was that it was not seeking …

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.

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