Kinsing Malware Exploits Novel Openfire Vulnerability

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Kinsing Malware Exploits Novel Openfire Vulnerability

Aqua Nautilus discovered a new campaign that exploits the Openfire vulnerability (CVE-2023-32315), that was disclosed in May of this year, to deploy Kinsing malware and a cryptominer. This vulnerability leads to a path traversal attack, which grants an unauthenticated user access to the Openfire setup environment. This then allows the threat actor to create a …

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PowerHell: Active Flaws in PowerShell Gallery Expose Users to Attacks

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Recent findings by Aqua Nautilus have exposed significant flaws that are still active in the PowerShell Gallery’s policy regarding package names and owners. These flaws make typosquatting attacks inevitable in this registry, while also making it extremely difficult for users to identify the true owner of a package. Consequently, these flaws pave the way for …

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Kubernetes Exposed: One Yaml away from Disaster

If you thought that falling victim to ransomware, or a hacker hijacking your workstation was a nightmare, consider the potential catastrophe of having your Kubernetes (k8s) cluster hijacked. It could be a disaster magnified a million times over.

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Three Years Later: The Meow Campaign Reaches Jupyter

In 2017 and 2020 we saw the oddest campaign – ‘Meow’ – targeting unsecured databases such as MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, CouchDB, and other software such as Hadoop clusters, FTPs, Jenkins etc. The Modus Operandi was very simple finding an exposed instance, deleting everything, and destroying data without any explanation. Back in 2017 and 2020, it …

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Tomcat Under Attack: Exploring Mirai Malware and Beyond

A recent Java Developer Productivity Report showed that almost 50% of developers are using Apache Tomcat, indicating its widespread usage in the cloud, big data and website development. We will begin by presenting statistics and examples from recent attacks. Afterward, we will delve into a detailed analysis of a single attack directed at one of …

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Detecting eBPF Malware with Tracee

eBPF is a popular and powerful technology embedded in the Linux kernel. It is widely used by many security tools for monitoring kernel activity to detect and protect organizations. eBPF, however, can potentially be a dual edged sword as it can be used by threat actors as part of their malicious arsenal. Lately, we have …

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TeamTNT Reemerged with New Aggressive Cloud Campaign

In part one of this two-part blog series, titled The Anatomy of Silentbob’s Cloud Attack we provided an overview of the preliminary stages of an aggressive botnet campaign that aimed at cloud native environments. This post will dive into the full extent of the campaign and provide a more comprehensive exploration of an extensive botnet …

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Threat Alert: Anatomy of Silentbob’s Cloud Attack

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Aqua Nautilus researchers identified an infrastructure of a potentially massive campaign against cloud native environments. This infrastructure is in early stages of testing and deployment, and is mainly consistent of an aggressive cloud worm, designed to deploy on exposed JupyterLab and Docker APIs in order to deploy Tsunami malware, cloud credentials hijack, resource hijack and …

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2023 Nautilus Cyber Security Report – Insights Revealed

The adoption of cloud native technologies has become a cornerstone to helping businesses build and run applications. Cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations design, develop, deploy, and manage their applications. While it has brought many benefits such as scalability, flexibility, and agility, it has also come with inherent complexities that have led to compromise …

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GitHub Dataset Research Reveals Millions Potentially Vulnerable to RepoJacking

Millions of GitHub repositories are potentially vulnerable to RepoJacking. New research by Aqua Nautilus sheds light on the extent of RepoJacking, which if exploited may lead to code execution on organizations’ internal environments or on their customers’ environments. As part of our research, we found an enormous source of data that allowed us to sample …

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Fortune 500 at Risk: 250M Artifacts Exposed via Misconfigured Registries

What if you were told that you had a misconfigured registry with hundreds of millions of software artifacts containing highly confidential and sensitive proprietary code and secrets exposed in your environment right now? This would be what you’d call a really bad day for security. Recently, the Aqua Nautilus research team found just that in …

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First-Ever Attack Leveraging Kubernetes RBAC to Backdoor Clusters

We have recently discovered the first-ever evidence that attackers are exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in the wild to create backdoors. The attackers also deployed DaemonSets to take over and hijack resources of the K8s clusters they attack. Our research suggests that this campaign is actively targeting at least 60 clusters in the …

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