Lucifer DDoS botnet Malware is Targeting Apache Big-Data Stack

Aqua Cloud Native Blog \ Tags: Malware Attacks

Aqua Nautilus has unveiled a new campaign targeting Apache big-data stack, specifically Apache Hadoop and Apache Druid. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the attacker exploits existing misconfigurations and vulnerabilities within our Apache cloud honeypots to execute the attacks.

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Detecting eBPF Malware with Tracee

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Threat Alert: Anatomy of Silentbob’s Cloud Attack

Security Threat

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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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 …

EXPERT INSIGHTS

Cloud Security Trends for 2023 Part One

As we think about what Cloud Native security will look like in 2023, we can’t avoid thinking about the old cat-and-mouse game cliché of cyber security. Every year new attacks emerge while new security solutions are created and old security fixes are upgraded. Threat actors constantly append new methods to the old ones, using them …

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Threat Alert: New Malware in the Cloud By TeamTNT

Threat Alert

Over the past week we observed three different attacks on our honeypots. The scripts and malware that were used bear a striking resemblance to none other than the threat actor TeamTNT. Eleven months ago they posted a farewell note on Twitter. Since then, we have only seen legacy attacks which automatically run on past infrastructure. …

CONTAINER SECURITY

Intro to Fileless Malware in Containers

A fileless attack is a technique that takes incremental steps toward gaining control of your environment while remaining undetected. In a fileless attack, the malware is directly loaded into memory and executed, evading common defenses and static scanning.

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Threat Alert: Fileless Malware Executing in Containers

Security Threat

Our cyber research team detected a new type of attack that executes and runs malware straight from memory in containers, thus evading common defenses and static scanning. This malware is using a rootkit to hide its running processes, then hijacks resources by executing a crypto miner from memory — leaving a backdoor that enables attackers …

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Threat Alert: Kinsing Malware Attacks Targeting Container Environments

Lately we’ve been witnessing a rise in the number of attacks that target container environments. We’ve been tracking an organized attack campaign that targets misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports. This persistent campaign has been going on for months, with thousands of attempts taking place nearly on a daily basis. These are the highest numbers …

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