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The Shai Hulud worm's "Second Coming" has compromised over 26,000 public repositories. We detail the attacker's mistake, the target packages, and mandatory security tips.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open-source and lightweight telemetry agent, that could be chained to compromise and take over cloud infrastructures. The security defects "allow attackers to bypass authentication, perform path traversal, achieve remote code execution, cause denial-of-service conditions, and manipulate tags," Oligo Security said in

Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms.

Threat actors with ties to Iran engaged in cyber warfare as part of efforts to facilitate and enhance physical, real-world attacks, a trend that Amazon has called cyber-enabled kinetic targeting. The development is a sign that the lines between state-sponsored cyber attacks and kinetic warfare are increasingly blurring, necessitating the need for a new category of warfare, the tech giant's

Those too-good-to-be-true online deals often come from drop-shipping sellers, and that can leave you holding all the risk.

This week showed just how fast things can go wrong when no one’s watching. Some attacks were silent and sneaky. Others used tools we trust every day — like AI, VPNs, or app stores — to cause damage without setting off alarms. It’s not just about hacking anymore. Criminals are building systems to make money, spy, or spread malware like it’s a business. And in some cases, they’re using the same

Amazon Web Services VP Sara Duffer highlights the top lessons she brought back to her security role after taking part in Amazon's shadow program.

### Description of Vulnerability: An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users. AWS recommends that customers upgrade to the following version: AWS NodeJS Wrapper to v2.0.1. ### Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim [allistair.hakim@gmail.com](mailto:allistair.hakim@gmail.com) ### Affected products & versions: AWS NodeJS Wrapper < 2.0.1. ### Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux

### Description of Vulnerability: An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users. AWS recommends customers upgrade to the following versions: AWS Go Wrapper to 2025-10-17. ### Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim [allistair.hakim@gmail.com](mailto:allistair.hakim@gmail.com) ### Affected products & versions: AWS Go Wrapper < 2025-10-17. ### Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux

### Description of Vulnerability: An issue in AWS Wrappers for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL may allow for privilege escalation to rds_superuser role. A low privilege authenticated user can create a crafted function that could be executed with permissions of other Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) users. AWS recommends for customers to upgrade to the following versions: AWS JDBC Wrapper to v2.6.5 or greater. ### Source of Vulnerability Report: Allistair Ishmael Hakim [allistair.hakim@gmail.com](mailto:allistair.hakim@gmail.com) ### Affected products & versions: AWS JDBC Wrapper < 2.6.5 ### Platforms: MacOS/Windows/Linux