Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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 […]

The threat actor known as PCPJack has hijacked cloud servers associated with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure to create a covert SMTP email relay network

Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do - a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one misconfigured anything or violated a policy. Yet that single key, which was easily accessible to a minor-league attacker, could have opened a path to some 98% of entities in the company's cloud

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.

A newly discovered threat actor is using Microsoft Teams, AWS S3 buckets, and custom "Snow" malware in a multipronged campaign.

Countries that banded together to challenge Boeing in the air try to do the same to AWS, Microsoft, and Google on the ground Feature More than half a century ago, a consortium of European aerospace businesses from the UK, France, Germany and Spain joined forces to take on America's Boeing. Fast forward to the 21st century and the countries are applying the same model needs to the world of cloud computing, giving the continent a fighting chance to reduce the digital domination of Big Tech.…

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.

Azure Outage Comes a Week After a Cloud DNS Error Disrupted AWS UsersMicrosoft's Azure cloud and 365 systems suffered an outage at noon on Wednesday because of a configuration error - hours before its quarterly earnings call and about a week after rival AWS underwent a widespread outage that shut down applications and services for most of the day.

Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published Britain's competition regulator says Microsoft and AWS are using their dominance to harm UK cloud customers and proposes to designate both with strategic market status (SMS) to take action against them.…

Google aims to stake out a share of the CNAPP market and compete head-on against AWS and Microsoft Azure with its planned Wiz acquisition. What are the implications for companies invested in AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure?

Google Aims to Match Microsoft Defender With $32B Buy of Wiz's Cloud Security TechGoogle's plan to buy cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion highlights its drive to compete with Microsoft Defender and expand multi-cloud protection, and will put pressure on AWS to respond. Forrester Analyst Andras Cser says Wiz will likely remain independent for now, easing integration hurdles.

Largest Cybersecurity Deal of All-Time Aims to Boost AI-Driven Multicloud SolutionsGoogle Cloud plans to acquire cloud security leader Wiz for $32 billion, integrating its AI-powered security capabilities to better protect companies across multiple cloud environments. The deal reinforces protections across multicloud environments, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Funnull CDN rents IPs from legitimate cloud service providers and uses them to host criminal websites, continuously cycling cloud resources in and out of use and acquiring new ones to stay ahead of cyber-defender detection.

Multiple popular mobile applications for iOS and Android come with hardcoded, unencrypted credentials for cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, exposing user data and source code to security breaches. [...]

Cloud services and thus millions of end users who access them could have been affected by the poisoning of artifacts in the development workflow of open source projects.

CISA and the FBI warned today that threat actors using Androxgh0st malware are building a botnet focused on cloud credential theft and using the stolen information to deliver additional malicious payloads. [...]

A new Python-based hacking tool called FBot has been uncovered targeting web servers, cloud services, content management systems (CMS), and SaaS platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft 365, PayPal, Sendgrid, and Twilio

Microsoft Defender for Cloud CSPM, which provides risk and compliance monitoring of AWS, Azure, and on-premises cloud, is finally adding GCP to the mix.

Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials? A criminal crew with a history of deploying malware to harvest credentials from Amazon Web Services accounts may expand its attention to organizations using Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.…

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