Blackhat 2022 recap – Trends and highlights

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  • phantom-attack

    POC for Phantom Attack

    The demo is performed exploiting using Phantom-attack, presented at DefCon 29. The mitigation was using the new version of Falco (>0.32), and it is also recommended to use other methods to block the system call such as seccomp. This would affect its performance.

  • rbac-police

    Evaluate the RBAC permissions of Kubernetes identities through policies written in Rego

    This Trampoline pod affects all major cloud providers with the default behavior and, for this, escaping the container means managing the entire cluster. They shared the tool rbac-policy that was presented in KubeCon EU.

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  • DirtyCred

    Kernel exploitation technique

    The new exploitation method presented by Zhenpeng Lin is called DirtyCred and is based on swapping Linux Kernel credentials. It’s simple, effective and generic. This allows it to perform container escape and still be an actual threat.

  • rewrite

    Automated mass refactoring of source code.

    Well, openRewrite has been introduced, an automated software refactoring to keep up to date with API changes, fix vulnerabilities, and improve code quality and the Moderne platform to manage the entire process. The talk explained three vulnerabilities (temporary directory hijacking, Partial path traversal, and Zip Slip) and focused on java language.

  • falco

    Cloud Native Runtime Security

    Log everything but know the limits: the golden rule of security is to log everything, but in some cases we exceed the limits. Attackers use this to hide their actions and go unnoticed. At this point, we want to highlight another option. Try to detect at runtime or at the time when these logs occur to avoid the large amount of logs (only one window is sufficient if the initial compromise attack is detected). That is what Falco open source tries to do.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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