Cryptocurrency Miners Abusing Containers: Anatomy of an (Attempted) Attack

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SECURITY RESEARCH

Cryptocurrency Miners Abusing Containers: Anatomy of an (Attempted) Attack

This isn’t a story about a Docker vulnerability; it’s a story about how hackers are looking for unsecured Docker deployments where they can mine cryptocurrency. You shouldn’t leave your Docker daemon unsecured any more than you would leave your mail server unsecured. We’ve heard many accounts of attempted (sometimes successful) cryptocurrency mining attacks on container …

Preparing Container-Based Applications for GDPR: What You Need to Know

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), set to replace the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, comes into effect in May 2018. GDPR is intended to protect the privacy of EU citizens, and give regulatory bodies the power to act against non-compliant organizations. It affects member states in the EU, but also companies handling EU citizens’ …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

DISCARDED eBPF Vulnerability (CVE-2017-16995): When the Doorman Becomes the Backdoor

Around the last week of December a tweet by Bruce Leidl caught our eyes, since it said “Straight up unlimited R/W to all kernel memory”…

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Improve DevOps Processes: Multiple Security Policies Applied to Images

When it comes to securing containerized applications, the first item on everyone’s agenda is to ensure that only trusted images are running in your environment, based on security and compliance policies. And for good reason too. This is by far the most effective preventive measure you can take to protect your applications.

CONTAINER SECURITY

5 Essential Docker Storage Tools

Storage has been a hot topic for as long as containers have been around. According to a survey by Portworx, 26% of IT pros cite persistent storage as the most difficult challenge in adopting containers, and 44% blame inadequate tools as the main reason. Although containers are stateless by design, the need to store data …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

2017 in Review: Major Developments in the Container Ecosystem

From a “humble” $762 million in 2016, containers are predicted to grow faster than any other technology this year (as well as the next) and are on the way to become a $2.7B industry by 2020.

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

Grafeas and Image Vulnerability Scanning

A couple of months ago Aqua Security were part of a group of companies supporting the launch of Grafeas, an open source API initially introduced by Google that allows users to manage and query metadata about software artifacts.

CONTAINER SECURITY

Securing Struts in AWS Fargate

Today at re:Invent, Amazon is announcing AWS Fargate, a container service that allows you to provision containers in AWS without having to worry about the VM instances for them to run on. We had an early preview, and the opportunity to see how Aqua’s Container Security Platform works to protect containers running in it.

CONTAINER SECURITY

Image Scanning in VPCs with Aqua and AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Web Services announced today at re:Invent an to a recent feature PrivateLink, that enables AWS Virtual Private Cloud customers to consume apps outside their VPCs through service endpoints, using their own private IP addresses and security groups. This is a non-trivial task since VPCs are made to be isolated, so normally, making an external SaaS application …

VULNERABILITY MANAGEMENT

How Aqua Scans Container Images On-Demand From The AWS Marketplace

Today we announced the availability of a new offering on AWS – our on-demand, pay-per-scan security scanner for container images is now available in the AWS Marketplace. The scanner is a full-featured version of Aqua’s image scanning capabilities found in the Aqua Container Security Platform, but with a licensing mechanism that enables a pay-per-scan model, …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Bugs Gone Wild: Container (Stack) Clash and CVE-2017-1000253

A Stack Clash is a vulnerability in the memory management of several operating systems, including Linux. It can be exploited by attackers to corrupt memory of a privileged process in order to execute arbitrary code.

PARTNERS & ALLIANCES

Securing Container Workloads on AWS with Aqua

Many of our customers run container workloads on AWS – hardly surprising given Amazon’s lead position in the cloud market. But AWS also offers some distinct advantages to those running containers, including a set of highly-integrated services that take the pain away from managing deployments.

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