Contrast Serverless detects malware in AWS Lambda functions

Two weeks ago, Cado security released an analysis about Denonia claiming it to be the first, publicly-known case of malware specifically designed to execute in an AWS Lambda environment. Denonia derives its name after the domain that the malicious code used to communicate with. The Golang-based malicious code runs crypto-mining code and, in order to avoid detection and to escape virtual network access controls, it uses address resolution techniques to command and to control traffic. 

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