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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. …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Thanks to many factors like the rise of the cloud infrastructure, the abundance of prebuilt open-source code, and process improvements in DevOps, innovating with software is happening faster than ever. The software supply chain is the assembly line for these technological innovations and can be thought of as any combination of code, tools, and processes …

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.

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 …

We’re delighted to announce our recent achievement of Premier tier status in HashiCorp’s partner ecosystem – a significant milestone in helping our mutual customers automate security and compliance as part of the cloud journey, and more effectively manage risk by shifting security left, securing the software supply chain and adopting zero trust architectures:

Application security teams are challenged today with the need for a centralized view of exposure to security issues like Log4j and Spring4Shell. But an exploding set of artifacts and security tools makes it prohibitively difficult to secure the development life cycle. A universal scanner drastically reduces this management overhead and gets you started quickly.

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has recently released the Software Supply Chain Security Guide, a set of practical, community-developed best practices for securing software delivery pipelines. As an initiator and one of the main contributors to this comprehensive and much-needed guidance, we at Aqua aim to help DevOps teams and the broader cloud native …