AWS

Malware & Threats

Issued by: The Hacker News

Threat actors’ use of Cloudflare R2 to host phishing pages has witnessed a 61-fold increase over the past six months. “The majority of the phishing campaigns target Microsoft login credentials, although there are some pages targeting Adobe, Dropbox, and other cloud apps,” Netskope security researcher Jan Michael said. Cloudflare R2, analogous to Amazon Web Service…

Cloud Security, Mobile Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Thousands of customer-facing Android and iOS mobile apps — including banking apps — have been found to contain hardcoded Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials that would allow cyberattackers to steal sensitive information from corporate clouds. Symantec researchers uncovered 1,859 business apps that use hardcoded AWS credentials, specifically access tokens. Of these, three-quarters (77%) contain valid…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

RSA CONFERENCE 2022 – If cloud services weren’t complicated enough for the typical business today to properly configure and secure, there’s also a lesser-known layer of middleware that cloud providers run that can harbor hidden security flaws. Researchers from Wiz.io last week at RSA Conference in San Francisco unveiled an open source, cloud middleware database…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, today announced new features added to the Polygraph® Data Platform which provide enhanced visibility and protection in Kubernetes environments. Through Kubernetes audit log monitoring, integration with the Kubernetes admission controller, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security, Lacework customers can now further minimize risks in build time and automate discovery…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Apache Log4j vulnerabilities disclosed in December 2021, including the one tracked as Log4Shell, can allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code and take control of vulnerable systems. In response to these flaws, AWS released multiple hot patches – each suitable for a different environment, including servers, Kubernetes, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Fargate – that…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

Following the massive infusion of cash, investors are valuing the company at $8.3 billion. San Francisco, California-based Lacework was founded in 2015 by Mike Speiser (managing director of Sutter Hill Ventures) Sanjay Kalra (now founder and CEO at ShiftRight), and Vikram Kapoor (CTO). It was built on the principal that cloud security is fundamentally a…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Security Week

The company’s agentless CNAPP solution aims to secure multi-cloud IaaS and PaaS environments, as well as containers and data, through a single, unified interface. Founded in February 2021, the Santa Clara, California-based company offers support for major cloud infrastructure providers, including AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, and Oracle. Microsec.ai claims to provide visibility into containers, microservices,…