Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.4.5 security updates and bug fixes

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4.5 General Availability release images, which fix bugs and update container images. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

What It Takes to Securely Scale Cloud Environments at Tech Companies Today

In January 2021, foreign trade marketing platform SocialArks was the target of a massive cyberattack. Security Magazine reported that the rapidly growing startup experienced a breach of over 214 million social media profiles and 400GB of data, exposing users' names, phone numbers, email addresses...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:1510-1)

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Rethinking Cyber-Defense Strategies in the Public-Cloud Age

The pandemic has fast-tracked migration to the public cloud, including Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Platform and Microsoft Azure. But the journey hasn’t exactly been smooth as silk: The great migration has brought a raft of complex security challenges, which have led to headline-grabbing...

New Variant of UpdateAgent Malware Infects Mac Computers with Adware

Microsoft on Wednesday shed light on a previously undocumented Mac trojan that it said has undergone several iterations since its first appearance in September 2020, effectively granting it an "increasing progression of sophisticated capabilities." The company's Microsoft 365 Defender Threat...

The evolution of a Mac trojan: UpdateAgent’s progression

Our discovery and analysis of a sophisticated Mac trojan in October exposed a year-long evolution of a malware family—and depicts the rising complexity of threats across platforms. The trojan, tracked as UpdateAgent, started as a relatively basic information-stealer but was observed distributing...

Molerats Hackers Hiding New Espionage Attacks Behind Public Cloud Infrastructure

An active espionage campaign has been attributed to the threat actor known as Molerats that abuses legitimate cloud services like Google Drive and Dropbox to host malware payloads and for command-and-control and the exfiltration of data from targets across the Middle East. The cyber offensive is...

Nanocore, Netwire and AsyncRAT spreading campaign uses public cloud infrastructure

By Chetan Raghuprasad and Vanja Svajcer. Cisco Talos discovered a malicious campaign in October 2021 delivering variants of Nanocore, Netwire and AsyncRATs targeting user's information. According to Cisco Secure product telemetry, the victims of this campaign are primarily distributed across the...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2021:4051-1)

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Kubernetes Guardrails: Bringing DevOps and Security Together on Cloud

Cloud and container technologies are being increasingly embraced by organizations around the globe because of the efficiency, superior visibility, and control they provide to DevOps and IT teams. While DevOps teams see the benefits of cloud and container solutions, these tools create a learning...

Dell EMC CloudLink OS Command Injection Vulnerability

Dell EMC CloudLink is a flexible data encryption and key management solution for data encryption in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. An OS command injection vulnerability exists in Dell EMC CloudLink 7.1 and earlier versions. A remote, highly-privileged attacker could exploit this...

Dell EMC CloudLink Hardcoded Password Vulnerability

Dell EMC CloudLink is a flexible data encryption and key management solution for data encryption in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.A hard-coded password vulnerability exists in Dell EMC CloudLink 7.1 and earlier versions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain...

Dell EMC CloudLink Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Dell EMC CloudLink is a flexible data encryption and key management solution for data encryption in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.Dell EMC CloudLink 7.1 and earlier versions are vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be exploited by a local, low-privilege attack...

Dell EMC CloudLink Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability

Dell EMC CloudLink is a flexible data encryption and key management solution for data encryption in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.Dell EMC CloudLink 7.1 and earlier versions contain an arbitrary file creation vulnerability that can be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers...

Public Clouds & Shared Responsibility: Lessons from Vulnerability Disclosure

The inexorable movement of data and applications to the cloud that began several years ago and accelerated during the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down. The rationale for this transformation is driven by a desire to outsource non-critical functions building and maintaining data centers,...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.2.9 security, bug, and container updates

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.2.9 General Availability release images, which provide security updates, one or more container updates, and bug fixes. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring Syste...

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...

Microsoft Warns of Cross-Account Takeover Bug in Azure Container Instances

Microsoft on Wednesday said it remediated a vulnerability in its Azure Container Instances ACI services that could have been weaponized by a malicious actor "to access other customers' information" in what the researchers described as the "first cross-account container takeover in the public...

ZOHO ManageEngine Cloud Security Plus Code Injection Vulnerability

ZOHO ManageEngine Cloud Security Plus is a log management and monitoring tool for the public cloud platform from ZOHO, Inc. A code injection vulnerability exists in ZOHO ManageEngine Cloud Security Plus, which originates from Zoho ManageEngine Cloud Security Plus before Build 4117, which can be...

A week in security (August 2 – August 8)

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