2022 Cloud Native Threat Report: Key Trends in Cyber Attacks

Aqua’s Team Nautilus 2022 Cloud Native Threat Report summarizes 2021 cloud-native threats: an uptick in cryptominers, backdoors, worms and rootkits; attackers shifting focus from misconfigured Docker to Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines; rapid, widespread exploitation of the Log4j zero‑day; growing software supply‑chain attacks; continued TeamTNT activity; and recommended mitigations including runtime security, layered Kubernetes defenses, and development-time scanning.