Experts Detail New Flaws in Azure HDInsight Spark, Kafka, and Hadoop Services

[ad_1] Feb 06, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Cloud Security Three new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Azure HDInsight’s Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark services that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation and a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) condition. “The new vulnerabilities affect any authenticated user of Azure HDInsight services such as Apache Ambari and Apache…

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Cryptominers Targeting Misconfigured Apache Hadoop and Flink with Rootkit in New Attacks

[ad_1] Jan 12, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new attack that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency miners within targeted environments. “This attack is particularly intriguing due to the attacker’s use of packers and rootkits to conceal the malware,” Aqua security researchers Nitzan Yaakov and Assaf Morag said…

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