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The updated NIST SP 800-81r3 guidelines elevate DNS to a critical security control layer, highlighting severe risks from misconfigurations such as dangling CNAMEs, lame delegations, and exposed resource records. Automated scanners and AI bots are increasingly exploiting these vulnerabilities at scale to hijack subdomains and map infrastructure, necessitating continuous DNS posture management and cryptographic protections like DNSSEC.
This report details primary attack vectors against containerized environments, focusing on container escapes, orchestration API abuse, and supply chain compromises. Threat actors exploit misconfigurations such as excessive Linux capabilities and exposed Docker sockets to break out of containers, while also targeting CI/CD pipelines and public image repositories to establish initial footholds.
Opportunistic threat actors continue to exploit exposed RDP, RDWeb, and vulnerable VPN configurations to gain initial access. Once inside, attackers deploy custom reverse tunnels, harvest credentials, and modify registry and firewall settings to establish persistent RDP access.
The threat actor ShinyHunters is leveraging a modified version of the AuraInspector tool to exploit misconfigured Salesforce Experience sites. By targeting overly permissive guest user profiles, attackers can interact with backend Aura endpoints to enumerate and exfiltrate sensitive corporate data without requiring authentication.
