10 verified briefings on Cloud Security. Each story includes a plain-English summary, why it matters, and the concrete action engineering teams should take.
AWS WAF has a new feature that lets website owners charge AI bots for accessing their content. This allows publishers to create new revenue streams from AI traffic directly at the network edge, without any code changes.
The cybersecurity landscape has transformed over the past two decades. What began as simple perimeter defense with firewalls and antivirus has evolved into a complex, AI-driven industry. This shift reflects fundamental changes in threats, technology, and the move to cloud infrastructure.
A series of high-impact security incidents, including a mail server zero-day, poisoned npm packages, and a fake AI repository, highlight a dangerous trend. Attackers are exploiting single points of failure in software supply chains and cloud infrastructure to launch widespread, cascading attacks.
A threat actor called PCPJack has hijacked over 230 servers on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. The compromised servers are being used to create a covert email relay network, turning them into proxies for sending mail.
A security researcher discovered that adding a trailing slash to AWS HTTP API paths could bypass Lambda authorizer authentication entirely. This critical vulnerability, caused by a path normalization mismatch, enabled unauthorized actions, including wire transfers at a fintech company, highlighting a significant security risk.
Two critical flaws in OpenStack Cyborg allow authenticated users to attack other tenants. Attackers can cause service disruptions or perform unauthorized actions, including reprogramming specialized hardware like FPGAs, posing a major infrastructure risk.
HCP Packer now lets platform teams enforce security and compliance rules on all cloud images. The new 'enforced provisioners' feature ensures every image built across an organization automatically meets central security standards, simplifying governance.
Attackers spent five months inside a stock exchange executive's Outlook mailbox. They slowly exfiltrated emails by routing them through Dropbox and OneDrive to avoid detection. The campaign, reported by Symantec and Carbon Black, appears to be a case of corporate espionage rather than direct financial theft.
Microsoft details an attack where a threat actor used a single compromised identity to breach an entire cloud environment. The attack began with social engineering and escalated through Microsoft Entra ID and M365 to compromise critical Azure services, including databases and virtual machines.
A standard, cached AWS access key on a single machine, without any misconfiguration, can provide an attacker with extensive access to a company's cloud environment. This highlights how normal operational behavior can inadvertently create significant security vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure.