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.
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 …
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 …
In early October, the US Department of Justice announced that a verdict had been reached in the case against former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan, finding him guilty of two counts associated with covering up a data breach at the company. What made the Uber data breach case particularly noteworthy was that it was not seeking …
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 …
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 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. …
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, …
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 …
This blog was co-authored by Asaf Eitani
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 …