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Autonomous Remediation Tools AdvanceCloud computing mainstay Amazon Web Services has taken a look at the vulnerability apocalypse and pronounced it fit for a business opportunity. Today the Seattle company entered a new battleground of platforms with the launch of its new family of security agents that it calls Continuum.

Researchers uncovered a 230-node cloud-based email relay network after the actor PCPJack accidentally exposed tools, logs, and C2 files online A threat actor tracked as PCPJack compromised 230 cloud servers across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and turned them into a covert email relay network. Hunt.io researchers discovered the operation because PCPJack […]

Bank Info Security 2 months, 2 weeks ago

OpenAI Trades Azure Exclusivity for Enterprise Reach

Renegotiated Pact With Microsoft Clears OpenAI Path to Enterprise CloudsOpenAI has launched its models and tools on Amazon Web Services, one day after revising its agreement with Microsoft to end years of cloud exclusivity, a move likely driven by competitive pressure from Anthropic's hold on enterprise AWS customers.

Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services. [...]

A critical misconfiguration in Amazon Web Services (AWS) CodeBuild could have allowed complete takeover of the cloud service provider's own GitHub repositories, including its AWS JavaScript SDK, putting every AWS environment at risk

EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands Amid continued trade and geopolitical volatility between Europe and the US, Amazon Web Services is making its European Sovereign Cloud generally available today and plans to expand so-called Dedicated Local Zones.…

'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational' Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else's cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS customers, abusing their Elastic Container Service (ECS) and their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resources, in an ongoing operation that started on November 2.…

Amazon's AWS GuardDuty security team is warning of an ongoing crypto-mining campaign that targets its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Container Service (ECS) using compromised credentials for Identity and Access Management (IAM). [...]

Misconfigured Customer Network Edge Devices' Under Fire, Warn ResearchersMisconfigured edge devices hosted in the cloud are giving nation-state hackers carte blanche to access Western critical infrastructure, warn threat intelligence experts at Amazon, who tied exploits of AWS customers' device administrator portals to Russia's GRU military intelligence agency.

Europe Tries, Tries Again Amid Transatlantic UncertaintyEuropean cloud users love hyperscalers - but they’re all American. Microsoft, Google and Amazon Web Services together hold 70% of the European market, with local providers mustering a mere 15% collectively. That landscape could soon change in the face of geopolitical reality.

Bank Info Security 8 months, 4 weeks ago

AWS Partially Restores Service Affected by Global Outage

Cloud Giant Blames DNS MisconfigurationAmazon Web Services is recovering from a service outage that affected its own services and dozens of its clients on Monday including websites of the British government. The cloud computing giant - the world's largest - blamed a domain name system misconfiguration.

Bank Info Security 8 months, 4 weeks ago

AWS Partially Restores Service Impacted in Global Outage

Cloud Giant Blames DNS MisconfigurationAmazon Web Services is recovering from a service outage that impacted its own services and dozens of its clients on Monday including websites of the British government. The cloud computing giant - the world's largest - blamed a domain name system misconfiguration.

Cloud security company Wiz has revealed that it uncovered in-the-wild exploitation of a security flaw in a Linux utility called Pandoc as part of attacks designed to infiltrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets of interest

Bank Info Security 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Navy Federal Credit Union Backup Exposed Online

Researcher: Internal Data Belonging to World’s Largest Lender Exposed on AWSNavy Federal, the world’s largest credit union, left hundreds of gigabytes of internal backup files exposed on Amazon’s cloud storage service, says cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler. Exposed data included email addresses, hashed passwords and what appeared to be internal system data.

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