CYBERSECURITY BULLETIN
What is the ‘Scarleteel’ threat and what does it target?
It focuses on AWS Fargate environments with the intention of engaging in data theft and carrying out more malicious forms of attacks
A recent report by Sysdig, a company specializing in cloud and container security, highlights the Scarleteel threat, which exclusively aims at particular AWS environments to carry out data theft and other malicious activities. The Sysdig Threat Research Team’s previous report from February shed light on the Scarleteel threat, which persists and constantly enhances its tactics to steal confidential data.
While cloud environments remain its primary focus, Scarleteel has adapted its tools and techniques to evade new security measures, employing a more robust and covert command and control architecture. The attack revealed that the threat actor possessed extensive expertise in AWS cloud mechanics, encompassing Elastic Compute Cloud roles, lambda serverless functions, and Terraform — a versatile open-source infrastructure-as-code tool utilized for automating operations on various cloud platforms.
In this instance, the attack commences by exploiting JupyterLab notebook containers deployed within a Kubernetes cluster. The…
