Cryptocurrency Miners Abusing Containers: Anatomy of an (Attempted) Attack

Cloud Native Security Research Blog

Aqua Nautilus research team

This isn’t a story about a Docker vulnerability; it’s a story about how hackers are looking for unsecured Docker deployments where they can mine cryptocurrency. You shouldn’t leave your Docker daemon unsecured any more than you would leave your mail server unsecured. We’ve heard many accounts of attempted (sometimes successful) cryptocurrency mining attacks on container …

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Bugs Gone Wild: Container (Stack) Clash and CVE-2017-1000253

A Stack Clash is a vulnerability in the memory management of several operating systems, including Linux. It can be exploited by attackers to corrupt memory of a privileged process in order to execute arbitrary code.

SECURITY RESEARCH

Dirty COW Vulnerability: Impact on Containers

CVE-2016-5195

There has been plenty of buzz lately regarding an old-new privilege escalation vulnerability, adorably named “Dirty COW” after the Copy-On-Write memory protection in the Linux kernel. The whole thing started roughly eleven years ago, when a kernel developer left a race condition issue opened: “This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be …

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