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The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) is on a mission to help secure innovation at cloud speeds. A group of some of the industry’s most elite threat researchers, the Sysdig TRT discovers and educates on the latest cloud-native security threats, vulnerabilities, and attack patterns. We are fiercely passionate about security and committed to the cause. Stay up to date here on the latest insights, trends to monitor, and crucial best practices for securing your cloud-native environments.

What is eBPF and how can it be used within the Kubernetes environment? In the dynamic world of container orchestration, where speed and adaptability are a must, eBPF, short for Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, has changed how developers interact with kernels within Kubernetes environments. At its core, eBPF crosses traditional boundaries, offering a programmable and secure in-kernel execution environment that empowers developers to use custom code without the need for modifications to the kernel itself.

Today, most organizations and individuals use Linux and the Linux kernel with a “one-size-fits-all” approach. This differs from how Linux was used in the past–for example, 20 years ago, many users would compile their kernel and modify it to fit their specific needs, architectures and use cases. This is no longer the case, as one-size-fits-all has become good enough. But, like anything in life, “good enough” is not the best you can get.

OpenShift, Red Hat’s enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform, has become the cornerstone for organizations embracing containerization. Its ability to streamline application development, deployment, and scaling across hybrid and multi-cloud environments is undeniable. However, successful OpenShift deployment is far from a walk in the park. The intricacies of container orchestration, data management, and maintaining high availability can quickly overwhelm even experienced IT teams.

The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) continued observation of the SSH-Snake threat actor we first identified in February 2024. New discoveries showed that the threat actor behind the initial attack expanded its operations greatly, justifying an identifier to further track and report on the actor and campaigns: CRYSTALRAY. This actor previously leveraged the SSH-Snake open source software (OSS) penetration testing tool during a campaign exploiting Confluence vulnerabilities.

Gartner projects that by 2026, 80% of software engineering organizations will have established platform engineering teams. The vision of platform engineering is ambitious: to empower developers with all the flexibility they need while minimizing complexity. This approach has already transformed infrastructure, deployment, data analytics, encryption management, authentication, and more.

On July 1st, the Qualys’s security team announced CVE-2024-6387, a remotely exploitable vulnerability in the OpenSSH server. This critical vulnerability is nicknamed “regreSSHion” because the root cause is an accidental removal of code that fixed a much earlier vulnerability CVE-2006-5051 back in 2006. The race condition affects the default configuration of sshd (the daemon program for SSH).

A guest post by James Berthoty, founder of Latio. CSPMs and CNAPP have a major gap, and unfortunately, it drives the majority of your cloud that actually matters (Kubernetes). To be frank, most CNAPPs were created around two things: Even the early players in the space who recognized the value of containerization found themselves too ahead of the market to support the giant funding opportunities present from their competition, who were focused on easily scanning every cloud workload that could exist.

For the Sysdig Customer Success team, our mission is simple: ensuring that our customers get the most value from our product. Usually that means helping them use the product, answering questions, and requesting feature enhancements. In our line of work, sometimes you have to throw out the usual playbook to make things happen. This particular story started when we noticed a change in a customer’s agent usage.

In cloud computing, two platforms stand out: OpenStack and Kubernetes. OpenStack, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform, enables the creation and management of virtualized data centers that cater to diverse workloads. Kubernetes, a container orchestration platform, excels at managing large-scale, distributed applications, facilitating rapid deployment and scaling. The OpenStack vs.