Organized attacks on cloud infrastructure and software supply chain increase

A new threat report from Aqua Security reveals a growing, organized and increasingly sophisticated pattern of attacks on cloud native infrastructure. While most attacks uncovered by Team Nautilus, Aqua's cybersecurity research team, were aimed at abusing public cloud compute resources for cryptocurrency mining, the methods used also open the door for higher-value targets that look to exploit security gaps in container software supply chains and runtime environments. The team observed 16,371 attacks since the beginning of 2020 that it tracked back to multiple locations across the globe. 70.7 percent of the attacks were built to mislead and conceal their malicious… [Continue Reading]