Cyber threats are evolving faster than traditional security defense can respond; workloads with potential security issues are discovered by threat actors within 90 seconds, with exploitation attempts beginning within 3 minutes. Threat actors are quickly evolving their attack methodologies, resulting…
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Security Hub CSPM automation rule migration to Security Hub
A new version of AWS Security Hub is now generally available with new capabilities to aggregate, correlate, and contextualize your security alerts across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. The prior version is now known as AWS Security Hub CSPM and…
GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection uncovers cryptomining campaign on Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
Amazon GuardDuty and our automated security monitoring systems identified an ongoing cryptocurrency (crypto) mining campaign beginning on November 2, 2025. The operation uses compromised AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to target Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and…
GuardDuty extended threat detection uncovers cryptomining campaign on Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
Amazon GuardDuty and our automated security monitoring systems identified an ongoing cryptocurrency (crypto) mining campaign beginning on November 2, 2025. The operation uses compromised AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to target Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and…
Cryptomining campaign targeting Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
Amazon GuardDuty and our automated security monitoring systems identified an ongoing cryptocurrency (crypto) mining campaign beginning on November 2, 2025. The operation uses compromised AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to target Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and…
What AWS Security learned from responding to recent npm supply chain threat campaigns
AWS incident response operates around the clock to protect our customers, the AWS Cloud, and the AWS global infrastructure. Through that work, we learn from a variety of issues and spot unique trends. Over the past few months, high-profile software…
Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure
As we conclude 2025, Amazon Threat Intelligence is sharing insights about a years-long Russian state-sponsored campaign that represents a significant evolution in critical infrastructure targeting: a tactical pivot where what appear to be misconfigured customer network edge devices became the…
Implementing HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) across AWS services
Modern web applications built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) often span multiple services to deliver scalable, performant solutions. However, customers encounter challenges when implementing a cohesive HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) strategy across these distributed architectures. Customers face fragmented security…
Meet digital sovereignty needs with AWS Dedicated Local Zones expanded services
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we continue to invest in and deliver digital sovereignty solutions to help customers meet their most sensitive workload requirements. To address the regulatory and digital sovereignty needs of public sector and regulated industry customers, we…
Exploring the new AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework
At Amazon Web Services, we’re committed to deeply understanding the evolving needs of both our customers and regulators, and rapidly adapting and innovating to meet them. The upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be a new independent cloud for Europe,…
Embracing our broad responsibility for securing digital infrastructure in the European Union
August 31, 2023: The date this blog post was first published. Over the past few decades, digital technologies have brought tremendous benefits to our societies, governments, businesses, and everyday lives. The increasing reliance on digital technologies comes with a broad…
How to customize your response to layer 7 DDoS attacks using AWS WAF Anti-DDoS AMR
Over the first half of this year, AWS WAF introduced new application-layer protections to address the growing trend of short-lived, high-throughput Layer 7 (L7) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These protections are provided through the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS AWS…
IAM Policy Autopilot: An open-source tool that brings IAM policy expertise to builders and AI coding assistants
Today, we’re excited to announce IAM Policy Autopilot, an open-source static analysis tool that helps your AI coding assistants quickly create baseline AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies that you can review and refine as your application evolves. IAM…
AWS launches AI-enhanced security innovations at re:Invent 2025
At re:Invent 2025, AWS unveiled its latest AI- and automation-enabled innovations to strengthen cloud security for customers to grow their business. Organizations are likely to increase security spending from $213 billion in 2025 to $377 billion by 2028 as they…
China-nexus cyber threat groups rapidly exploit React2Shell vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182)
Within hours of the public disclosure of CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell) on December 3, 2025, Amazon threat intelligence teams observed active exploitation attempts by multiple China state-nexus threat groups, including Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda. This critical vulnerability in React Server Components…
AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports partitioned CRLs
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is essential for securing and establishing trust in digital communications. As you scale your digital operations, you’ll issue and revoke certificates. Revoking certificates is useful especially when employees leave, migrate to a new certificate authority hierarchy,…
How to use the Secrets Store CSI Driver provider Amazon EKS add-on with Secrets Manager
In this post, we introduce the AWS provider for the Secrets Store CSI Driver, a new AWS Secrets Manager add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that you can use to fetch secrets from Secrets Manager and parameters from…
AWS Secrets Manager launches Managed External Secrets for Third-Party Credentials
Although AWS Secrets Manager excels at managing the lifecycle of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, managing credentials from third-party software providers presents unique challenges for organizations as they scale usage of their cloud applications. Organizations using multiple third-party services frequently…
Introducing guidelines for network scanning
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is introducing guidelines for network scanning of customer workloads. By following these guidelines, conforming scanners will collect more accurate data, minimize abuse reports, and help improve the security of the internet for everyone. Network scanning is…
Practical steps to minimize key exposure using AWS Security Services
Exposed long-term credentials continue to be the top entry point used by threat actors in security incidents observed by the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT). The exposure and subsequent use of long-term credentials or access keys by threat actors…