Kubernetes adoption has rocketed into ubiquity. At this point, 96 percent of organizations are either using Kubernetes for container orchestration or evaluating its use, according to the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation annual survey. But this doesn’t mean that Kubernetes isn’t without security risks. The flexibility of container applications and their capability to carry discrete components that interact over the network present security challenges.
Our research team here at Mend has identified a new kind of malicious code that attackers can use to exploit genuine concerns about security and licenses. The code in the case below is used to prevent people from using unlicensed software, specifically by removing the code if it detects that the software is not licensed during the deployment stage. The code is tricky to understand and uses a web request to check if the software is being used legally.
