Containers are popular because they are easy to build, test, and operate across a wide variety of infrastructure. Increasingly, serverless infrastructure services like AWS Fargate are preferred for containerized workload operations, because they allow organizations to focus their resources on innovation, while outsourcing the infrastructure management to their cloud service provider.

In this blog post, learn about SentinelOne’s Singularity Cloud Workload Security (CWS) for Serverless Containers, a real-time cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) for containerized workloads, running on AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. Powered by AI, CWS detects runtime threats like ransomware, zero-days, and fileless exploits in real-time, and streamlines machine-speed response actions.

The Challenge | Maintaining Cloud Workload Availability

Organizations of all sizes increasingly deploy containerized cloud workloads to serverless infrastructure services such as AWS Fargate. Whether running on Amazon ECS (Elastic Container Service) or Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), these ephemeral workloads, although short-lived, still represent a vulnerable attack surface. Automated runtime attacks can exploit vulnerabilities and spread in seconds. Simply examining configurations is insufficient when machine-speed attacks threaten to disrupt cloud operations in seconds. Therefore, they require real-time threat detection and response, to stop the spread and maintain the integrity and availability of cloud workloads.

Moreover, short-lived workloads can challenge incident response (IR) procedures unless there is a forensic data record of workload telemetry for IR specialists to follow. Here again, agentless inspection falls short. Only an agent can serve as the flight data recorder of workload telemetry. These are two of the primary value propositions of a CWPP agent: real-time threat detection and response, and a forensic record of workload telemetry.

However, serverless infrastructure services restrict or prohibit access to the underlying infrastructure. This constraint necessitates an agent architecture tailored to the specific use case of containerized workloads running on serverless infrastructure.

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Politically-motivated hacktivist groups are increasingly utilizing ransomware payloads both to disrupt targets and draw attention to their political causes. Notable among these hacktivist groups is Ikaruz Red Team, a threat actor that is currently leveraging leaked ransomware builders.

In attacks occurring over recent months, we have observed Ikaruz Red Team and aligned groups such as Turk Hack Team and Anka Underground (aka Anka Red Team) conduct attacks against Philippine targets and hijack branding and imagery belonging to the government’s Computer Emergency Response Program (CERT-PH).

In this post, we profile this hacktivist group and its recent actions, highlighting the threat actor’s methodology, social media activity and relevance within the wider geopolitical context.

Geopolitical Context & Affiliations

Ikaruz Red Team (IRT), under various identities, has targeted entities in the Philippines through defacements, small-scale DDoS attacks and now ransomware attacks. This behavior, between 2023 and present day (2024), is part of the larger wave of hacktivist groups targeting the region, as documented by Resecurity in April 2024. Resecurity ties these more recent observations to the greater geopolitical landscape, in the context of rising tensions with China, noting that the Philippines’ strategic significance in the Indo-Pacific makes it an attractive target for actors bent on civil disruption.

Over the last year or so, the Philippines has experienced an increase in scattered hacktivist attack campaigns. Previously identified hacktivist groups such as Robin Cyber Hood, Philippine Exodus (aka PHEDS), Cyber Operations Alliance, and Philippine Hacking University have been claiming credit for a variety of ransomware attacks, misinformation campaigns and espionage. On April 8th, the Philippine’s National Privacy Commission (NPC) launched an investigation into a breach of critical government infrastructure through an attack on the Department of Science & Technology by a previously unknown hacktivist identifying itself as #opEDSA.

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