Most people are painfully aware that security breaches have increased in recent years, while at the same time becoming much more sophisticated in their approach. Additionally, ever-expanding application environments and continuously evolving workloads have created more opportunities than ever for attackers. What’s not so apparent to those outside of the tech bubble: The world is dangerously ill-equipped to handle the magnitude of these threats.

The benefits of cloud computing are causing the adoption of cloud services by companies of all sizes to increase each year. The reduction of operating costs, time to market, ease of use, and reliability are some of the most significant benefits. However, the shared responsibility model must be taken into consideration. Cloud breaches are already everywhere and it doesn’t look like they’re going to slow down anytime soon.

A new advisory from Qualys discloses a local privilege escalation bug in SUID-set program ‘pkexec’. The flaw has been designated the CVE ID of CVE-2021-4034 and nicknamed “pwnkit” by the vulnerability finders. The CVSSv3 base score is calculated to be a high 7.8 out of 10.0. The vulnerable program is a part of Polkit, which manages process privileges.

The fifth annual Sysdig Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report digs into how Sysdig customers of all sizes and industries are using and securing cloud and container environments. We examined the data and found some interesting trends this year that may help you as you work to develop best practices for securing and monitoring your cloud-native environments. This year’s report has new data on cloud security, container vulnerabilities, and Kubernetes capacity planning.

Sysdig today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status. This crucial designation recognizes the value provided by the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform to AWS customers to achieve their container and cloud security goals. As a key partner for the ecosystem, Sysdig collaborates closely with AWS and its customers to enhance the protection of cloud infrastructure and applications against continuously evolving security threats.

This week, Linux maintainers and vendors disclosed a heap overflow vulnerability in the Linux Kernel. The vulnerability has been issued a Common Vulnerability and Exposures ID of CVE-2022-0185 and is rated as a High (7.8) severity. The flaw occurs in the Filesystem Context system when handling legacy parameters. An attacker can leverage this flaw to cause a DDoS, escape container environments, and elevate privileges.

The increasing number of yearly reported data breaches and new critical vulnerabilities, such as log4j, impacting both small and large businesses shows that cyberthreats are real and targeting everyone. You can minimize risk by implementing runtime security and having an incident response plan in place to contain attacks. But, in container environments, responding fast to incidents is challenging.

Our security research team will explain a real attack scenario from the black box and white box perspective on how a vulnerable AWS Lambda function could be used by attackers as initial access into your cloud environment. Finally, we show the best practices to mitigate this vector of attack. Serverless is becoming mainstream in business applications to achieve scalability, performance, and cost efficiency without managing the underlying infrastructure.

In the early days of 2022, two extremely popular JavaScript open source packages, colors.js, and faker.js, were modified to the point of being unusable. The reason for this event can be traced to various motivations, but what is worth mentioning is that several applications that employed those dependencies were involved. The two impacted packages can be used for different purposes in JavaScript applications. colors.js enables color and style customization in the node.js console.

Microsoft Azure is a great choice for enterprises looking to quickly build and deploy apps to the cloud. However, cloud teams must simultaneously consider how to implement DevSecOps practices to reduce, manage and avoid risks. Sysdig is collaborating with Microsoft to simplify cloud and container security and deliver robust SaaS-based solutions for the Azure ecosystem.