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Purple team tool exposes blind spots in Kubernetes security scanners

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer built NEMESIS, a Kubernetes-native purple team platform that runs inside clusters as a DaemonSet. It executed attack scenarios that three major security scanners—Trivy, kube-bench, and Polaris—had all missed. The tool uses Python for orchestration and Go for attack agents, with eBPF integration for flow-level network telemetry.

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The story underscores a known limitation: static scanners check configuration, not runtime behavior, making dynamic testing essential for real security.
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