What’s Lurking In Your Containers? AMBERSQUID Operations, Freejacking, and Microservice Exploitation

What’s Lurking In Your Containers? AMBERSQUID Operations, Freejacking, and Microservice Exploitation

In this episode, Host Ron Eddings, discusses new tactics of adversaries with Director of Threat Research at Sysdig, Michael Clark. Michael digs into the cloud and shares trends about the AMBERSQUID operation and how to protect yourself from potential container-based threats.

Impactful Moments

00:00 - Welcome

01:20 - Introducing guest Michael Clark

03:09 - Finding AMBERSQUID

06:46 - Mining and Monitoring AWS Services

10:47 - Defending Against AMBERSQUID

14:03 - The Speed of Container-Based Threats

18:13 - The Costs of Freejacking

23:08 - Attribution & The Future Threat

26:30 - CIEMs Like You Have Secrets

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