Malicious Docker Hub Container Images Used for Cryptocurrency Mining

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The increased adoption of containers has given rise to a wide range of potential threats to DevOps pipelines. Many of the attacks we observed involved the abuse of container images to carry out malicious functionalities. In our monitoring of Docker-related threats, we recently encountered an attack coming from 62[.]80[.]226[.]102. Further analysis revealed that the threat actor uploaded two malicious images to Docker Hub for cryptocurrency mining. Docker was already notified of this attack and has since removed the malicious images.
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