"Half of Docker Hub Images Feature Critical Flaws"

Researchers at Prevasio scanned all four million images hosted at Docker Hub, the world’s most popular repository service for Linux-based containers. They found that over half of the publicly available Docker Hub container images contain at least one critical vulnerability.  Additionally, over 6000 were rated potentially harmful or malicious. Of these, the largest number (44%) were coin miners, followed by malicious npm packages (23%), hacking tools (20%), and Windows malware (6%).

Infosecurity reports: "Half of Docker Hub Images Feature Critical Flaws"