SEC vs. SolarWinds: A Cybersecurity Game Changer for CISOs

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EXPERT INSIGHTS

SEC vs. SolarWinds: A Cybersecurity Game Changer for CISOs

As winter winds swept across the US this month an even colder wind swept through offices of organizations everywhere, as the SEC brought charges against SolarWinds Corporation and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). With one simple indictment the lives of CISOs everywhere changed (even if they may not know it yet) as the consequences …

SECURITY RESEARCH

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 …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Zero-Day Attack Prevention Through Supply Chain Security

Supply chain security has made lots of headlines recently thanks to events like the SolarWinds breach. That and similar events highlight the importance of having a strategy in place to respond to zero-day attacks which can take advantage of vulnerable software components.

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Supply Chain Security: Shifting Left to the Golden Pipeline

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 …

SECURITY RESEARCH

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 …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Threat Alert: Phishing as a Service to Ramp Up Supply Chain Attacks

Threat actors are ramping up their game by deploying Phishing as a Service (PhaaS) to code and package managers (such as GitHub, PyPI, Ruby, NPM). This tactic circumvents Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) mechanisms leading to session cookie hijacks and account takeovers. As we’ve learned in recent years, account takeovers of these applications lead to supply chain …

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.

SECURITY RESEARCH

GitHub Bug Allowed Third-Party Apps to Gain Elevated Permissions

We learned about a bug in GitHub that for about five days at the end of February allowed third-party applications connected to GitHub to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. For example, if you connected the Codecov app to your GitHub account with read-only access to your repositories, during that window the app …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Real-world Cyber Attacks Targeting Data Science Tools

Security Threat

With the accelerated move to the cloud, organizations increasingly rely on large data teams to make data-driven business decisions. In their job, data professionals are given high privileges and access to development and production environments. But what are the security threats that target data tools? And, more importantly, are organizations prepared to deal with these …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Software Supply Chain Attacks: 2021 in Review

As CI/CD pipelines have become an increasingly popular attack vector, 2021 saw a huge rise in software supply chain attacks. With their number more than tripling in the past year, securing the software delivery process is one of the most urgent needs. In our latest study, we examine the top supply chain security threats that …

SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY

Securing the World’s Software Supply Chains: Why Argon Joined Aqua

Last year, Argon set out on an exciting mission to solve one of the industry’s most urgent problems: secure the way companies build and release software. Today, we’re thrilled to hit another milestone on this journey as we join forces with Aqua Security, the well-known leader in cloud native security. This extraordinary accomplishment not only …

A Popular npm Library Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack: What to Do

In late October, a supply chain attack affected a popular npm library, ua-parser-js, which put many companies at risk of compromise. In this blog, we will describe the attack and outline a few ways that organizations can mitigate similar threats. This is an example in a growing trend of cyberattacks that leverage the software supply …

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