An unknown attacker targeted tens of thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet in an attempt to install a cryptocurrency miner. It's not immediately known if all of these hosts were successfully compromised. Nonetheless, it was made possible by means of a "lesser-known technique" designed to trick the servers into writing data to arbitrary files – a … [Read more...] about Over 39,000 Unauthenticated Redis Instances Found Exposed on the Internet
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New Security Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Self-Managed GitLab Instances
Researchers have disclosed details of a new security vulnerability in GitLab, an open-source DevOps software, that could potentially allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to recover user-related information. Tracked as CVE-2021-4191 (CVSS score: 5.3), the medium-severity flaw affects all versions of GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition starting from 13.0 and all … [Read more...] about New Security Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Self-Managed GitLab Instances
Poorly Configured Apache Airflow Instances Leak Credentials for Popular Services
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday discovered misconfigurations across older versions of Apache Airflow instances belonging to a number of high-profile companies across various sectors, resulting in the exposure of sensitive credentials for popular platforms and services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Binance, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), PayPal, Slack, and Stripe. "These … [Read more...] about Poorly Configured Apache Airflow Instances Leak Credentials for Popular Services
Here’s a New Free Tool to Discover Unprotected Cloud Storage Instances
The IDC cloud security survey 2021 states that as many as 98% of companies were victims of a cloud data breach within the past 18 months. Fostered by the pandemic, small and large organizations from all over the world are migrating their data and infrastructure into a public cloud, while often underestimating novel and cloud-specific security or privacy issues. Nearly every … [Read more...] about Here’s a New Free Tool to Discover Unprotected Cloud Storage Instances
Wormable DarkRadiation Ransomware Targets Linux and Docker Instances
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new ransomware strain called "DarkRadiation" that's implemented entirely in Bash and targets Linux and Docker cloud containers, while banking on messaging service Telegram for command-and-control (C2) communications. "The ransomware is written in Bash script and targets Red Hat/CentOS and Debian Linux distributions," researchers from … [Read more...] about Wormable DarkRadiation Ransomware Targets Linux and Docker Instances
Crypto-Mining Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters via Kubeflow Instances
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new large-scale campaign targeting Kubeflow deployments to run malicious cryptocurrency mining containers. The campaign involved deploying TensorFlow pods on Kubernetes clusters, with the pods running legitimate TensorFlow images from the official Docker Hub account. However, the container images were configured to execute rogue … [Read more...] about Crypto-Mining Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters via Kubeflow Instances