Bucket Monopoly: Breaching AWS Accounts Through Shadow Resources

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Bucket Monopoly: Breaching AWS Accounts Through Shadow Resources

During February 2024, we discovered critical vulnerabilities in six AWS services. The impact of these vulnerabilities range between remote code execution (RCE), full-service user takeover (which might provide powerful administrative access), manipulation of AI modules, exposing sensitive data, data exfiltration and denial of service.

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TrailShark: Understanding AWS API and Service Interactions

In this blog, we introduce TrailShark, a plugin that connects Wireshark with AWS CloudTrail logs. This open-source tool was developed as part of the “Bucket Monopoly” research, during which we identified six vulnerabilities in AWS by tracking service interactions and internal API calls. These vulnerabilities range from remote code execution (RCE) and full-service user takeover …

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Panamorfi: A New Discord DDoS Campaign

Aqua Nautilus researchers uncovered a new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign dubbed ‘Panamorfi’, utilizing the Java written minecraft DDoS package – mineping – the threat actor launches a DDoS. Thus far we’ve only seen it deployed via misconfigured Jupyter notebooks. In this blog we explain about this attack, the techniques used by the threat …

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Kubernetes Exposed: Exploiting the Kubelet API

Kubelet API is a vital component in Kubernetes clusters that manages pods and their containers on each node. While it is not typically intended for direct user interaction, many DevOps teams may utilize the Kubelet API for debugging and direct node communication. However, exposing the Kubelet API to the public internet while enabling anonymous unauthenticated …

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Phantom Secrets: Undetected Secrets Expose Major Corporations

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For years, we’ve been educating developers not to hard-code secrets into their code. Now it turns out that even doing this once might permanently expose that secret, even after its apparent removal – and worse, most secrets scanning methods will miss it. Our research found that almost 18% of secrets might be overlooked.

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Muhstik Malware Targets Message Queuing Services Applications

Aqua Nautilus discovered a new campaign of Muhstik malware targeting message queuing services applications, specifically the Apache RocketMQ platform. Our investigation revealed that the attackers downloaded the known malware Muhstik onto the compromised instances by exploiting a known vulnerability in the platform. In this blog, we will explore how the attackers exploit the existing vulnerability …

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Linguistic Lumberjack: Understanding CVE-2024-4323 in Fluent Bit

Linguistic Lumberjack is a new critical severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-4323) that affects Fluent Bit versions 2.0.7 through 3.0.3. The vulnerability involves a memory corruption error, potentially leading to denial of service, information disclosure, or remote code execution.

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Employee Personal GitHub Repos Expose Internal Azure and Red Hat Secrets

What happens when employees at some of the world’s largest organizations like Microsoft and RedHat use personal GitHub repos for their side projects? They can unknowingly expose corporate secrets and credentials opening the doors for a security incident. Unfortunately, this isn’t just a hypothetical situation.

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Lucifer DDoS botnet Malware is Targeting Apache Big-Data Stack

Aqua Nautilus has unveiled a new campaign targeting Apache big-data stack, specifically Apache Hadoop and Apache Druid. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the attacker exploits existing misconfigurations and vulnerabilities within our Apache cloud honeypots to execute the attacks.

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Snap Trap: The Hidden Dangers Within Ubuntu’s Package Suggestion System

Aqua Nautilus researchers have identified a security issue that arises from the interaction between Ubuntu’s command-not-found package and the snap package repository. While command-not-found serves as a convenient tool for suggesting installations for uninstalled commands, it can be inadvertently manipulated by attackers through the snap repository, leading to deceptive recommendations of malicious packages. Additionally, our …

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Mitigating Leaky Vessels Vulnerabilities in runc, BuildKit and Moby with Aqua

On January 31, 2024, researchers revealed the discovery of four severe security vulnerabilities in the container ecosystem. These vulnerabilities, affecting key components including runc, BuildKit, Moby (Docker Engine), and Docker Desktop, pose significant risks to the security and integrity of applications that use containerization applications.

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HeadCrab 2.0: Evolving Threat in Redis Malware Landscape

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 researchers detected a new version of the HeadCrab malware targeting our …

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