Zero-Day Attack Prevention Through Supply Chain Security

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SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY
Zero-Day Attack Prevention Through Supply Chain Security
Supply chain security has made lots of headlines recently thanks to events like the SolarWinds breach. That and similar events highlight the importance of having a strategy in place to respond to zero-day attacks which can take advantage of vulnerable software components.
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CONTAINER SECURITY
Establishing a Resilient DevSecOps Action Plan
DevSecOps is an easy term to toss around. But what does it mean, exactly? What actually goes into an effective DevSecOps strategy? And how do cloud and DevOps impact DevSecOps processes?  To find out, I participated in a conversation with Merritt Baer, principal in the AWS Office of the CISO, to discuss the best ways …
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CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION
Protecting AWS Fargate Containers at Runtime
Containers as a Service (CaaS) like AWS Fargate have proven to be a valuable mechanism for DevOps teams to build and deploy complex applications at scale. By removing the need for infrastructure management and security, customers can also reduce development costs using AWS Fargate.
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SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY
Software Supply Chain Security vs. SCA: What’s the Difference?
As reliance on software increases in both personal and professional contexts, security of the software supply chain has become a critical concern. Ensuring the security and quality of software is essential for protecting against digital attacks, data breaches, and other cyber threats. Two practices that play a key role in ensuring software security are software …
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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