CVE-2021-44832: Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Log4j

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SECURITY RESEARCH

CVE-2021-44832: Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability in Log4j

This holiday season, adversaries aren’t taking a vacation, massively exploiting multiple vulnerabilities in Log4j, a highly popular Java logging library. Amid the ongoing efforts of organizations to patch their vulnerable systems, a new Log4j vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44832, has been discovered. It allows for an arbitrary code execution via JDBC Appender when an attacker can …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Threat Alert: Evolving Attack Techniques of Autom Cryptomining Campaign

Over the past three years, we at Team Nautilus have been tracking an ongoing cryptomining campaign attacking our honeypots. It got the name Autom due to a shell script that was downloaded and that initiated the attack. Through the years, the campaign has evolved, demonstrating new techniques to hide the attack. In this blog, we …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Stopping a DreamBus Botnet Attack with Aqua’s CNDR

We recently came across a real-life scenario that is very common for organizations. A developer with admin access launched a cloud native application but made a mistake and misconfigured it with weak credentials. Just 12 hours later, the environment was attacked by the DreamBus botnet, which proceeded to evade defenses and run Kinsing malware and …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Threat Alert: Tracking Real-World Apache Log4j Attacks

This blog was co-authored with Ori Glassman, a security researcher at Aqua Security Until last week, Log4j was just a popular Java logging framework, one of the numerous components that run in the background of many modern web applications. But since a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was published, Log4j has made a huge impact on the …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

CVE-2021-45046: Second Log4j Security Vulnerability Discovered

Dec 17 update: The CVSSv3 score for CVE-2021-45046 has been raised from 3.7 to 9.0. While many organizations are still dealing with the discovery and mitigation process for the previous Log4j CVE, the project has announced that another vulnerability CVE-2021-45046 has been discovered due to an incomplete fix in Log4j 2.15.0. In response, a new …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Protecting Cloud Native Workloads on GKE Autopilot

GKE Autopilot is a new mode of operation in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) launched earlier this year to help DevOps teams focus their time and resources on building applications on Kubernetes, rather than on managing the infrastructure that the applications run on. As Aqua Security is a GKE selected security partner, customers can now run the Aqua platform seamlessly on a GKE Autopilot cluster. This can allow them to address …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

CVE-2021-44228 aka Log4Shell Vulnerability Explained

Log4Shell, a new, critical zero-day vulnerability that crashed onto the scene last Friday, shows how issues that are hidden in seemingly basic functionality can have major repercussions for enterprise security. When the dust settles from the immediate incident response and remediation, organizations should assess how they can improve their detection and responses, because this vulnerability …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Kubernetes Version 1.23: What’s New for Security?

Like clockwork, a new Kubernetes release is upon us, with loads of interesting new features. A couple of the key features in Kubernetes 1.23 are hitting the beta level and will be enabled by default. In this post, we’ll explain what they mean for security, both in terms of improving cluster security and what you …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Securing the World’s Software Supply Chains: Why Argon Joined Aqua

Last year, Argon set out on an exciting mission to solve one of the industry’s most urgent problems: secure the way companies build and release software. Today, we’re thrilled to hit another milestone on this journey as we join forces with Aqua Security, the well-known leader in cloud native security. This extraordinary accomplishment not only …

CONTAINER SECURITY

What You Need to Know About PCI DSS Compliance in Cloud Native

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a well-known compliance framework for any organization handling payment card data. However, translating the PCI DSS requirements into the world of containers and Kubernetes can be overwhelming. In this post, we break down how containerized applications impact PCI DSS compliance and how to meet its …

CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION

Advanced Workload Protection for AWS Services on Graviton2

Moving at the pace of innovation in cloud native infrastructure, Aqua is announcing container security support for the AWS Fargate serverless service now running on Amazon Graviton2 processors. The support for Fargate on Graviton2 container protection, security, and compliance builds on our existing workload protection for Amazon EC2 VMs on Graviton2.

SECURITY RESEARCH

RATs in the Cloud: Kubernetes UI Tools Turn into a Weapon

For many years, threat actors have been using legitimate remote access tools (RATs) in their campaigns, tricking users into installing them to get full control over the victims’ systems. Similarly, in the cloud native world, attackers are increasingly targeting user interface (UI) tools to gain access to Docker and Kubernetes instances. In this blog, we’ll …

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