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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered Siloscape, the first known malware that infects Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments by attacking Windows Server containers.
Daniel Prizmant, a cybersecurity researcher at Unit 42 notes “Siloscape is heavily obfuscated malware targeting Kubernetes clusters through Windows containers. Its main purpose is to open a backdoor into poorly configured Kubernetes clusters in order to run malicious containers”.
Siloscape was first discovered in March 2021 and uses a number of techniques, including targeting common cloud applications such as web servers. It first gains a foothold through known vulnerabilities, then breaks out of the cont…
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