At the beginning of 2023, Aqua Nautilus researchers uncovered HeadCrab - an advanced threat actor utilizing a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that compromised 1,200 Redis servers. As you know in the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, threat actors continually adapt and refine their techniques. Recently, our …
This blog was co-authored by Nitzan Yaakov
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 …
This blog was co-authored by Itamar MaoudaTwo 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 …
Security practitioners often need to investigate malicious artifacts in their environments, which can be challenging if those are deleted or loaded from memory. This is increasingly the case as threat actors are weaponizing Linux kernel modules to perform and hide their attacks. In this blog, we look into kernel …
Earlier this year, Aqua’s Team Nautilus detected a cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting our honeypots. As part of the campaign, the threat actors used a container escape technique that leverages the CGroup release_agent feature. This technique allows an attacker to break out from the container and compromise the …