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You don’t get hacked by one bad pod. You get hacked by the path between them.
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You don’t get hacked by one bad pod. You get hacked by the path between them.

via Dev.toSudhanshu Mani Tripathi3h ago

Most Kubernetes security discussions I see focus on individual misconfigurations — bad RBAC, privileged pods, exposed services, etc. But in real-world incidents, attackers don’t stop at one mistake. They move. Laterally. Quietly. From: Pod → Node Node → IAM / Cloud One namespace → another That “movement” is what actually breaks clusters. DevOps Conference & Camps So I built something to explore that idea: A Kubernetes Attack Path Visualizer Instead of showing isolated issues, it maps: How different misconfigs connect Possible attack chains across the cluster Where privilege escalation actually becomes possible Example: A low-priv pod + weak RBAC + node access → suddenly becomes cluster takeover Individually? Not critical. Together? Game over. From what I’ve seen (and even in discussions here), people underestimate how attackers pivot: “More real attacks come from host stuff… spreading sideways” What I’m trying to figure out: Do you currently think in terms of attack paths or just misco

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