SCARLETEEL zaps back again. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 15 July 2023

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Michael Clark from Sysdig joins with Dave to discuss their research on SCARLETEEL 2.0: Fargate, Kubernetes, and Crypto. New research from Sysdig threat researchers found that the group continues to thrive with improved tactics. Most recently, they gained access to AWS Fargate, a more sophisticated environment to breach, thanks to their upgraded attack tools. The research states "In their most recent activities, we saw a similar strategy to what was reported in the previous blog: compromise AWS accounts through exploiting vulnerable compute services, gain persistence, and attempt to make money using cryptominers." Had Sysdig not thwarted SCARLETEEL's attack, they estimated that they would have mined $4,000 per day until they were stopped. The research can be found here: SCARLETEEL 2.0: Fargate,Kubernetes, and Crypto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
1:32.2	down the threats and vulnerabilities,
1:34.3	solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:40.2	Thanks for joining us. Back in February of 2022, we first encountered this actor who we call in Starladeal, mainly because we are kind of an
1:55.6	nautical themed mascot that's a Kraken, so it seemed appropriate.
2:00.6	That's Michael Clark, Director of threat research at Sistig.
2:04.0	The research we're discussing today is titled Scarlet Teal 2.0, Fargate, Kubernetes, and crypto. One of our customers had a security issue and it led us down this path of finding this this cloud attacker who went from
2:25.8	runtime into the cloud and it's very interesting things that we don't see a lot. We see things like crypto miners and other financial motives quite a bit,
2:37.5	but this one was quite a bit different because not only did they did try to run a crypto miner but they also
2:43.6	stole code from a Lambda so they downloaded all the Lambda functions and they
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