The Ticking Supply Chain Attack Bomb of Exposed Kubernetes Secrets

Aqua Cloud Native Blog \ Tags: Kubernetes Security

Exposed Kubernetes secrets pose a critical threat of supply chain attack. Aqua Nautilus researchers found that the exposed Kubernetes secrets of hundreds of organizations and open-source projects allow access to sensitive environments in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and open a severe supply chain attack threat. Among the companies were SAP’s Artifacts management system …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Scanning KBOM for Vulnerabilities with Trivy

Early this summer we announced the release of Kubernetes Bills of Material (KBOM) as part of Trivy, our all in one, popular open source security scanner. In the blog we discussed how KBOM is the manifest of all the important components that make up your Kubernetes cluster: Control plane components, Node Components, and Addons, including …

SECURITY RESEARCH

Kubernetes Exposed: One Yaml away from Disaster

Threat Alert

If you thought that falling victim to ransomware, or a hacker hijacking your workstation was a nightmare, consider the potential catastrophe of having your Kubernetes (k8s) cluster hijacked. It could be a disaster magnified a million times over.

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Introducing KBOM – Kubernetes Bill of Materials

SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) is an accepted best practice to map the components and dependencies of your applications in order to better understand your applications’ risks. SBOMs are used as a basis for vulnerability assessment, licensing compliance, and more. There are plenty of available tools, such as Aqua Trivy, that help you easily generate …

SECURITY RESEARCH

First-Ever Attack Leveraging Kubernetes RBAC to Backdoor Clusters

We have recently discovered the first-ever evidence that attackers are exploiting Kubernetes (K8s) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in the wild to create backdoors. The attackers also deployed DaemonSets to take over and hijack resources of the K8s clusters they attack. Our research suggests that this campaign is actively targeting at least 60 clusters in the …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Kubernetes Benchmark Scans with Trivy: CIS and NSA Reports

One of Trivy’s core features is Trivy Kubernetes for in-cluster security scans of running workloads. This tutorial will showcase how to generate CIS and NSA reports both through the Trivy CLI and the Trivy Operator. Additionally, we will look at how users can add the Kubernetes Specification for their own Compliance Report format to expand …

KUBERNETES SECURITY

Kubernetes Version 1.26: An Overview

Kubernetes Version 1.26 was released with 37 new enhancements including 11 Stable, 10 Beta, 16 Alpha, and 12 features deprecated or removed. In this blog, we will highlight its most notable features and show how using Trivy will help you find deprecated Kubernetes resources.

RUNTIME SECURITY

Tracee Release: Rules Detect Attackers Out-of-the-Box

Aqua Tracee is an open source runtime security and forensics tool for Linux. It can help you detect suspicious behavior at runtime using an extensive data collection engine and a sophisticated rules engine. You can further read about the development of Tracee in our blog The Story of Tracee: The Path to Runtime Security Tool.

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

Vulnerability Scanning: Trivy vs the Trivy Operator

Over the past few months Aqua Trivy, the all-in-one cloud native security scanner, has rapidly grown in features and tapped into new use cases. In this blog post, we will explore

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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Securing Kubernetes Everywhere with EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) Bare Metal

With the release of Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) Bare Metal, Amazon Web Services has expanded the choices of infrastructure to deploy EKS Anywhere clusters using on-premise bare metal servers as a deployment target. In support of this, Aqua has worked to ensure that as customers adopt EKS Anywhere to automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management for …

AQUA OPEN SOURCE

How to Secure Your Kubernetes Clusters with Trivy

Last month at KubeCon Europe, we released new Kubernetes security scanning for Trivy. It allows you to scan running Kubernetes clusters and resources for misconfigurations directly through the Trivy CLI or by installing the Trivy Kubernetes Operator in a cluster. In this blog, we’ll demonstrate how to use Trivy to scan Kubernetes resources and how …

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