Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada

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Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the past six months. KrebsOnSecurity publicly named the suspect in February …

AWS KY3P report now available for third-party supplier due diligence

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We’re excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed the S&P Global Know Your Third Party (KY3P) assessment of its security posture. This assessment demonstrates our continued commitment to meet the heightened expectations of cloud service providers. Customers can now use the AWS KY3P assessment …

Automating identity lifecycle and security with AWS Directory Service APIs

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Managing identities and access across complex environments has become more critical than ever. AWS Directory Service for Managed Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, has added new capabilities to manage users and groups. Now, you can perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on …

Why Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore chose Cedar for securing agentic workflows

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Agents have agency: they adapt and find multiple ways to solve problems. This autonomy creates a fundamental security challenge: the large language model (LLM) at the heart of the agent is non-deterministic, and its decisions can’t be predicted or guaranteed in advance. It can hallucinate harmful actions with …

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

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Google on Wednesday published exploit code for an unfixed vulnerability in its Chromium browser codebase that threatens millions of people using Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and virtually all other Chromium-based browsers. The proof-of-concept code exploits the Browser Fetch programming interface, a standard that allows long videos and other large files …

AWS Security Hub Extended: Why enterprise security products should sell themselves

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Our largest security services customers started the same way every customer does – with a click. They enabled Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS WAF, and AWS Security Hub, experienced the benefits in real time, and evaluated with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing. No RFP. No six-month evaluation. No multi-year commitment up front …

CIRT insights: How to help prevent unauthorized account removals from AWS Organizations

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The AWS Customer Incident Response Team works with customers to help them recover from active security incidents. As part of this work, the team often uncovers new or trending tactics used by various threat actors that take advantage of specific customer configurations and designs. Understanding these tactics can help …

In stunning display of stupid, secret CISA credentials found in public GitHub repo

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Security researcher Brian Krebs brings us the news that America's Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has had a large store of plaintext passwords, SSH private keys, tokens, and "other sensitive CISA assets" exposed in a public GitHub repo since at least November 2025. The now-offline public repo—named, somewhat aspirationally …

Governing infrastructure as code using pattern-based policy as code

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Organizations often struggle to enforce security and compliance requirements consistently across their cloud infrastructure. In one environment, a workload might be deployed in an AWS Region that was never approved for that class of data. In another, a security group might allow broader access than intended. Required tags might …

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