50% of Misconfigured Containers Hit by Botnets in an Hour

From ehackingnews.com

Aqua Security announced on Monday that information gathered from container honeypots over a six-month period indicated that 50% of misconfigured Docker APIs are attacked within 56 minutes of being set up. 
According to the study, it takes the opponents’ bots an average of five hours to scan a new honeypot. The quickest scan took only a few minutes, while the longest scan took 24 hours. This revelation, according to Assaf Morag, a principal data analyst with Aqua’s Team Nautilus, emphasizes the need of discovering and resolving cloud misconfigurations quickly or preventing them from occurring before app deployment. 

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