What’s Really Happening in Your Containers? Aqua’s Risk Assessment Has the Answer

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CONTAINER SECURITY

What’s Really Happening in Your Containers? Aqua’s Risk Assessment Has the Answer

Containers may be mainstream, but securing them in production remains a moving target. As AI adoption scales and environments grow more complex, so too do the risks, especially at runtime, where traditional tools struggle to provide meaningful visibility. These are not legacy exploits like port scans or brute force attempts. Attackers are targeting what happens …

CONTAINER SECURITY UNBOXED

How to Secure Your Containers from TeamTNT’s Docker Gatling Gun Campaign

Aqua’s Runtime Protection acts as a powerful last line of defense when threats bypass your perimeter controls. In attacks like TeamTNT’s Docker Gatling Gun, Aqua monitors container behavior in real time to detect and stop suspicious activity such as file-less execution or resource hijacking. With flexible policies, you can automatically alert and/or block compromised containers …

Aqua Security Achieves FedRAMP® High Authorization

Aqua Security’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) has achieved FedRAMP® High Impact Authorization, making Aqua one of the few CNAPP providers authorized at the highest level of federal cloud security compliance. This milestone opens the door for U.S. federal agencies, commercial organizations that require FedRAMP High, and cloud service providers operating in FedRAMP-authorized environments …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Tomcat in the Crosshairs: New Research Reveals Ongoing Attacks

News headlines reported that it took just 30 hours for attackers to exploit a newly discovered vulnerability in Apache Tomcat servers. But what does this mean for workloads relying on Tomcat? Aqua Nautilus researchers discovered a new attack campaign targeting Apache Tomcat. In this blog, we shed light on newly discovered malware that targets Tomcat …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Cut Through Alert Noise and Fix Toxic Combinations First

Not every security alert is a threat, but the right combination can bring down your cloud native and containerized applications. Security incidents rarely happen because of a single weak point. Instead, they stem from toxic combinations. A misconfigured workload might seem harmless on its own, but add exposed credentials and an unpatched vulnerability, and attackers …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

IngressNightmare Vulnerabilities: All You Need to Know

CVE-2025-1974 * CVE-2025-24514 * CVE-2025-1097 * CVE-2025-1098 * CVE-2025-24513

On March 24, 2025, a set of critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, CVE-2025-24514, and CVE-2025-1974 — collectively referred to as IngressNightmare was disclosed in the ingress-nginx Controller for Kubernetes. These vulnerabilities could lead to a complete cluster takeover by granting attackers unauthorized access to all secrets stored across all namespaces in the Kubernetes cluster.

Expert Insights

How the Google-Wiz acquisition redefines cloud security

Google’s acquisition of Wiz, announced last week, is a pivotal moment as it marks a strategic shift in how cyber security will evolve over the next few years. It instantly turns Google into a major player in security, adding Wiz to other building blocks Google has racked up in the past couple of years, most …

RUNTIME SECURITY

Supply Chain Security Risk: GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files Compromised

On March 14th, 2025, security researchers discovered a critical software supply chain vulnerability in the widely-used GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files (CVE-2025-30066). This vulnerability allows remote attackers to expose CI/CD secrets via the action’s build logs. The issue affects users who rely on the tj-actions/changed-files action in GitHub workflows to track changed files within a pull request. …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Stopping Sobolan Malware with Aqua Runtime Protection

Aqua Nautilus researchers have discovered a new attack campaign targeting interactive computing environments such as Jupyter Notebooks. The attack consists of multiple stages, beginning with the download of a compressed file from a remote server. Once executed, the attacker deploys several malicious tools to exploit the server and establish persistence. This campaign poses a significant …

Debunking Six Myths of Cloud Native Security

The promise of cloud native applications lies in their ability to provide enhanced agility, scalability, and resilience, perfectly aligning with the digital transformation needs of today’s enterprises. However, as we navigate this transformation, cloud native application security is often surrounded by myths and misconceptions. Understanding these myths and how they are being addressed is crucial …

CONTAINER SECURITY UNBOXED

Secure Your Containers from Perfctl with Aqua Runtime Protection

Protecting against advanced malware like perfctl requires a multi-layered approach. While signature-based detection effectively identifies known variants, perfctl can evolve and evade these methods. To stay protected from future strains, combine signature-based and behavioral-based monitoring to detect suspicious and malicious unknown activity. With flexible runtime policies, you have the control to automatically stop threats like …

Top Cloud Native Threats and Vulnerabilities of 2024

The complexity of cloud environments means that there is a virtually infinite list of potential security risks and vulnerabilities that could arise within cloud infrastructure or workloads. That said, some cloud security threats are more prevalent than others – and knowing which risks and vulnerabilities are trending is key to knowing what to prioritize when …

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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.

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