Summary

Top Articles:

  • Compromising Read-Only Containers with Fileless Malware
  • How attackers use exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters
  • A Survey of Istio's Network Security Features
  • Deep Dive into Real-World Kubernetes Threats
  • Threat news: TeamTNT targeting misconfigured kubelet
  • How to mitigate kubelet’s CVE-2021-25741: Symlink exchange can allow host filesystem access
  • Siloscape, first known malware that drops a backdoor into Kubernetes clusters

Threat news: TeamTNT targeting misconfigured kubelet

Published: 2022-09-19 17:13:09

Popularity: 1

Author: Alberto Pellitteri

Keywords:

  • CVE
  • Kubernetes
  • Sysdig
  • TeamTNT is a prevalent threat actor who has been targeting cloud and virtual environments such as Kubernetes and Docker since... The post Threat news: TeamTNT targeting misconfigured kubelet appeared first on Sysdig.

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    How attackers use exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters

    Published: 2022-07-05 14:00:38

    Popularity: 24

    Author: Miguel Hernández

    Keywords:

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Prometheus
  • You might think that your metrics are harmless from a security point of view. Well, that’s not true, and in... The post How attackers use exposed Prometheus server to exploit Kubernetes clusters appeared first on Sysdig.

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    Compromising Read-Only Containers with Fileless Malware

    Published: 2022-05-03 15:00:00

    Popularity: 30

    Author: Nicholas Lang

    Keywords:

  • CVE
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Containers provide a number of security features that are not simply available on a normal host. One of those is... The post Compromising Read-Only Containers with Fileless Malware appeared first on Sysdig.

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    How to mitigate kubelet’s CVE-2021-25741: Symlink exchange can allow host filesystem access

    Published: 2021-09-24 14:33:55

    Popularity: 1

    Author: Alberto Pellitteri

    Keywords:

  • Kubernetes
  • CVE-2021-25741 is a new vulnerability discovered in Kubernetes that allows users to create a container with subpath volume mounts to... The post How to mitigate kubelet’s CVE-2021-25741: Symlink exchange can allow host filesystem access appeared first on Sysdig.

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    Siloscape, first known malware that drops a backdoor into Kubernetes clusters

    Siloscape is a new strain of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and spread in the Kubernetes cluster. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have spotted a piece of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and then drop a backdoor into Kubernetes […] The post Siloscape, first known malware that drops a backdoor into Kubernetes clusters appeared first on Security Affairs.

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    A Survey of Istio's Network Security Features

    Published: 2020-03-04 12:00:00

    Popularity: 12

    Author: jleadfordncc

    Keywords:

  • Cloud & Containerization
  • North American Research
  • Research
  • Istio
  • Kubernetes
  • security analysis
  • service mesh
  • 🤖: "Secure network gates"

    Istio is a service mesh, which, in general, exist as a compliment to container orchestrators (e.g. Kubernetes) in order to provide additional, service-centric features surrounding traffic management, security, and observability. Istio is arguably the most popular service mesh (using GitHub stars as a metric). This blog post assumes working familiarity with Kubernetes and microservices, but … Continue reading A Survey of Istio's Network Security Features →

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    Deep Dive into Real-World Kubernetes Threats

    Published: 2020-02-12 12:00:00

    Popularity: 8

    Author: nccmanning

    Keywords:

  • Cloud & Containerization
  • Conferences
  • North American Research
  • Research
  • Kubernetes
  • Pentesting
  • Shmoocon
  • On Saturday, February 1st, I gave my talk titled “Command and KubeCTL: Real-World Kubernetes Security for Pentesters” at Shmoocon 2020. I’m following up with this post that goes into more details than I could cover in 50 minutes. This will re-iterate the points I attempted to make, walk through the demo, and provide resources for … Continue reading Deep Dive into Real-World Kubernetes Threats →

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