24th August – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 24th August, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Latvia’s Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) has
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Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
Interesting paper : Abstract: With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out criminal deception , employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing co
Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid
The neon flying squid can fly in formation. The shoal of about 100 squid rose unexpectedly from a patch of the Pacific Ocean around 370 miles from Tokyo and glided near the boat for about 30 metres. T
Landing Zone Accelerator Independent Assessment Report for C5:2020 now available on AWS Artifact
Organizations operating in Germany and across Europe increasingly need to demonstrate cloud security compliance under the Cloud Computing Compliance Criteria Catalogue (C5:2020), published by Germany’
Summer 2026 SOC 1 report is now available with 185 services in scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that the Summer 2026 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available. The reports cover 185 services over the 12-month period from Jul
How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats
Every Signal chat starts the same way: the client asks the Signal server for the public key associated with your contact’s phone number. But how do you know the server gave you the right key? A compro
AWS successfully completed its 2025-26 NHS DSPT assessment
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce its successful completion of the 2025-26 NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (NHS DSPT) assessment audit and achieving a status of Standards Excee
Project CAV3RN continues: Google Apps Script as C2 relay and DNS-based C2 channel selection
Project CAV3RN targets Israel with Google Apps Script C2 relays and DNS-based routing. Modular .NET NativeAOT framework blends C2 traffic with legitimate Google services to evade detection.
2026 AWS CyberVadis report now available for due diligence on third-party suppliers
We’re excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed theCyberVadis assessment of its security posture with the highest score (Mature) in all assessed areas. This demonstrates our con
Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
This is good : Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency , we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard
Friday Squid Blogging: Arctic Bobtail Squid Video
Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Securing your Amazon S3 buckets: Identifying and remediating over-permissioned access
Misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets can expose your data to unauthorized access. Without proactive review, S3 bucket policies or Access Control Lists (ACLs) configured with
Automate certificates with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager
Customers tell us that managing TLS certificates at scale is one of their biggest operational concerns. The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) has mandated a phased reduction in
Route Amazon Bedrock Guardrails interventions to Amazon Security Lake
Security teams investigating AI-related incidents need guardrail intervention data alongside their existing security telemetry. Routing Amazon Bedrock Guardrails violations to Amazon Security Lake mak
Caching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scale
This post assumes familiarity with envelope encryption and the AWS Encryption SDK. When your encryption system generates millions of duplicate API calls per hour, costs spiral and performance degrades
Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems
There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: "Our patterns p
AWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflows
Customers have access to models that are continuously getting better with each new generation bringing larger context windows, stronger reasoning, and lower token costs. Getting the strongest AI-power
From 2 weeks to 2 minutes: Amazon Cognito launches Provisioned limits for self-service rate limit management
Imagine preparing for your biggest sales event of the year, and you want to ensure your customer identity management service can handle the elevated traffic for carrying out application activities. Fo
A few notes on AWS Nitro Enclaves: KMS integration
Nitro Enclaves and Key Management Service (KMS) feel like a natural fit: since the KMS can verify attestation documents generated by the enclaves, developers can offload key management tasks from thei
Iran Cyberattacks Against Minnesota Water Systems
Attribution is preliminary , and so far it seems no real damage. And it seems like this is a campaign that has targeted at least seven states . And, because this is where the US is right now, Trump do