Threat Alert: Market-First Container Image Built to Attack Kubernetes Clusters

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SECURITY RESEARCH

Threat Alert: Market-First Container Image Built to Attack Kubernetes Clusters

Aqua’s Team Nautilus has uncovered a container image that, for the first time, allows bad actors to find and exploit vulnerabilities in Kubernetes clusters. The attackers propagate this malware through a Docker Hub lookalike account intended to dupe developers into downloading malicious images. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first known case …

Runtime Protection for K8s Workloads Using a Mutating Admission Controller

Although Kubernetes has certainly matured into a well-adopted container orchestrator platform, it remains complex to manage and secure. Coupling this with a growing attack surface and bad actors trying to exploit it, organizations must implement a comprehensive approach to securing their K8s applications. Aqua aims to tame the complexity of securing K8s-based applications by leveraging …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Taking Advantage of Object Labels while Controlling the Human Factor

The use of object labels has grown into an industry best practice, as labels allow you to apply metadata to objects like images, deployments, containers, volumes, networks, and more. They can be short and technical, but they can also be more descriptive. However, even with the use of automation for creating labels, although effective, it …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE, KUBERNETES SECURITY

Automating Kubernetes Security Reporting with Starboard Operator by Aqua

Back in June 2020, we released Starboard – an open source toolkit that integrates security tools into a Kubernetes environment. We’re now happy to announce a new Starboard Operator that automates the generation of security reports in your K8s cluster. Using Starboard Operator, you can rely on the tools you’re already familiar with, like kubectl, …

Introducing KSPM by Aqua: Kubernetes Security Posture Management

With the rapid adoption of Kubernetes, an unforeseen consequence has emerged — there simply aren’t enough trained K8s experts to go around, let alone K8s security experts. Kubernetes environments have increased in size and complexity, expanding its attack surface, and ultimately heightening its susceptibility to exploitation. Given that the configuration of K8s involves many different …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY RESEARCH

Uncover Malware Payload Executions Automatically with Tracee

We have some exciting news about two new features in Tracee, Aqua’s open source container and system tracing utility. Now, Tracee is much more than just a system call tracer, it’s a powerful tool that can be used to perform forensic investigations and dynamic analysis of binaries – both are incredibly useful when looking for hidden malware. Tracee can provide users with timely insights that previously required special knowledge and tools.

Visualize and Prioritize Risks in Kubernetes with Aqua Risk Explorer

If you’re running workloads on Kubernetes, one of the toughest things to understand is where you have security gaps. Yes, there are CIS benchmarks and configurations to tweak, but they are generalized and won’t highlight the risks in workloads that are actually running in your clusters. The Aqua Risk Explorer’s dynamic display of workloads and …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Starboard: The Kubernetes-Native Toolkit for Unifying Security

There are lots of security tools in the cloud native world, created by Aqua and by others, for identifying and informing users about security issues in Kubernetes environments. However powerful and useful they might be, they tend to sit alongside Kubernetes, with each new product requiring users to learn a separate set of commands and …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Kube-Query: A Simpler Way to Query Your Kubernetes Clusters

osquery is a SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics tool that exposes an operating system as a relational database. Using SQL, you can run queries to gain the status of your entire infrastructure. What’s cool about osquery is how easy it is to use the SQL query interface. kube-query is an open source reporting …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Impressions from KubeSec, Our Third Enterprise Summit for K8s Security

Yesterday more than 300 cloud native professionals assembled for KubeSec, what has now become a fixture as a “day zero” event for KubeCon/CloudNativeCon. As with previous events, the emphasis was on end-user organizations’ experiences in securing production environments. While many technical aspects and best practices were covered, this year a recurring theme was tackling the …

SECURITY RESEARCH

DNS Spoofing on Kubernetes Clusters

In this post I’ll describe how an attacker, who manages to run malicious code on a cluster can, with no special permissive permissions, successfully spoof DNS responses to all the applications running on the cluster, and from there execute a MITM (Man In The Middle) on all network traffic of pods.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Kubernetes Pod Escape Using Log Mounts

Kubernetes has many moving parts, and sometimes combining them in certain ways can create unexpected security flaws. In this post you’ll see how a pod running as root and with a mount point to the node’s /var/log directory can expose the entire contents of its host filesystem to any user who has access to its …

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