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 …

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 …

COMPANY & CULTURE

Aqua Secures $25M in Series B Funding

It’s been less than a year since we announced our Series A round led by Microsoft, and what a year it’s been!

CONTAINER SECURITY

Multi-Tenant Security Management for Containers

Aqua CNAPP is focused on making the platform more scalable for our customer deployments, which include some of the world’s largest container setups.

CONTAINER SECURITY

HIPAA Compliance for Containers: Impact Analysis and Best Practices

Since 1996, the HIPAA act has mandated how personal health information (PHI) should be secured and protected from prying eyes. HIPAA requirements changed how companies in the healthcare industry treat patient data, as well as the processes governing it, the applications that handle it, and the infrastructure that runs those applications. In the U.S, following HIPAA …

CLOUD WORKLOAD PROTECTION

Securing Containers on OpenShift

Red Hat OpenShift container platform is one of the popular and mature platforms for developing and managing container deployments. While it has many built-in security features, Aqua provides an additional layer of security both in development as well as for protecting containerized applications in runtime.

CONTAINER SECURITY

The Challenges of Docker Secrets Management

In our many conversations with customers, Docker secrets management has come up as a particularly thorny issue that seemed to lack an elegant, cross-platform solution for container environments. Not a new issue in the enterprise space, especially as pertains to large-scale DevOps environments, the challenges of managing secrets become amplified in container environments.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Dirty COW Vulnerability: Impact on Containers

There has been plenty of buzz lately regarding an old-new privilege escalation vulnerability, adorably named “Dirty COW” after the Copy-On-Write memory protection in the Linux kernel. The whole thing started roughly eleven years ago, when a kernel developer left a race condition issue opened: “This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Six Free Tools to Make Your Container Deployments Easier

Like many of you working in Docker-space, over time I’ve come across a ton of third-party tools that improve management, cleanup, orchestration, development and other container processes.

CONTAINER SECURITY

New Docker Security Features and What They Mean: Seccomp Profiles

The new Docker 1.10 release has a host of new features, among them several security improvements that merit the attention of anyone using Docker to develop and run applications. I’d like to focus on three of these features in a short series of blogs: Seccomp profiles, Authorization Plug-in, and User Namespace Support.

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