Vulnerabilities, Secrets and Misconfiguration in the Highest-Exposure Docker Hub Images

Docker Hub is the registry underneath most container deployments, and a flaw in a widely reused base image is inherited by every image built on it. Prior ecosystem-scale measurements each rely on a single detector, leaving the tool-dependence of their counts unquantified, while the studies that d...

Misconfigured Docker Servers Under Attack By Xanthe Malware

Researchers have discovered a Monero cryptomining botnet they call Xanthe, which has been exploiting incorrectly configured Docker API installations in order to infect Linux systems. Xanthe was first discovered in a campaign that employed a multi-modular botnet, as well as a payload that is a...