HeadCrab: A Novel State-of-the-Art Redis Malware in a Global Campaign

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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 …

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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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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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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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Technical Review: A Deep Analysis of the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability

Dirty Pipe (CVE-2022-0847) proved that there is a new way to exploit Linux syscalls to write to files with a read-only privileges. The fact that someone can write to a file regardless of its permissions is a big security threat. An application of this vulnerability would be to write on the host from an unprivileged …

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Aqua Nautilus Discovers Redigo — New Redis Backdoor Malware

Aqua Nautilus discovered new Go-based malware that targets Redis servers. The attack was executed against one of our deliberately vulnerable Redis honeypots (CVE-2022-0543). Our investigation revealed new undetected malware written in Golang designed to target Redis servers to allow the attacking server to dominate the compromised machine. Therefore, the malware received the name Redigo. In …

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Updated Security Advisory: New OpenSSL Vulnerabilities

The OpenSSL project has pre-announced a new and critical severity vulnerability, which was downgraded to High as of today, Nov. 1, 2022. The initial pre-announcement blog has been updated here to reflect additional remediation guidance.

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Text4Shell: CVE-2022-42889 in Apache Commons Text Explained

A new vulnerability in the Apache Commons Text library indicates that attackers can perform remote code execution (RCE). The media rushed to create hype around this vulnerability, comparing it to the infamous zero-day vulnerability Log4Shell, which emerged late last year and was broadly exploited by attackers. However, it’s too soon to say whether this new …

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Threat Alert: Private npm Packages Disclosed via Timing Attacks

We at Aqua Nautilus have discovered that npm’s API allows threat actors to execute a timing attack that can detect whether private packages exist on the package manager. By creating a list of possible package names, threat actors can detect organizations’ scoped private packages and then masquerade public packages, tricking employees and users into downloading …

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Threat Alert: New Malware in the Cloud By TeamTNT

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. …

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Detecting Drovorub’s File Operations Hooking with Tracee

Two years ago, the NSA (the United States’ National Security Agency) revealed that Drovorub, an advanced Russian malware created by the GRU 85th GTsSS team, had been discovered targeting Linux systems. Drovorub works by introducing advanced techniques which can manipulate the Linux operation system. It has an advanced kernel rootkit that hooks several kernel functions. In …

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Threat Alert: Cloud Network Bandwidth Now Stolen through Cryptojacking

Threat actors are looking to increase their financial gain and thus deploy cryptominers which are considered easy to use and lucrative. Cryptomining involves complex calculations leading to high computation power and consequently increased CPU consumption and electricity (or cloud) bill. Aqua Nautilus found a new type of cryptomining attack in the wild. As far as …

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