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INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific. Published context: June 22, 2026. A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a “dramatic increase” in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal networks, and a disparity in cybersecurity maturity. According to INTERPOL’s 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report, phishing has emerged ...

AWS Security Agent announces support for Threat Modeling

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent announces support for Threat Modeling. Published context: June 17, 2026. AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now includes threat modeling, an AI-powered agentic capability that automatically generates threat models for your applications. Available today in public preview, AWS Security Agent analyzes your design documents or application source code, understands the full context of your application architecture, and iden ...

Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam. Published context: June 19, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This new Local Zone is one of the first AWS Local Zones in the Asia Pacific with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to meet dat ...

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs. Published context: June 22, 2026. Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626930 Points: 193 # Comments: 100 The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. The service angle: Staff Augmentation For US engineering leaders, this points back to a practical operating need: augment US development teams with senior LATAM engineering resources. ...

F5 Patches Two Critical NGINX Open Source Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported F5 Patches Two Critical NGINX Open Source Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution. Published context: June 18, 2026. F5 has released security updates to address two critical security flaws in NGINX Open Source that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-42530 (CVSS v4 score: 9.2) - A use-after-free vulnerability in the ngx_http_v3_module that could be triggered by a remote unauthenticated attacker w ...

AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capability (preview)

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capability (preview). Published context: June 17, 2026. AWS DevOps Agent now offers a release management capability in preview, reviewing code changes for release readiness and running autonomous release testing to help you ship code to production safely and with confidence. With this addition, AWS DevOps Agent now works across both delivery and operations. It accelerates and validates the deployment of code chan ...

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality adde ...

AWS launches a new continuous modernization capability in AWS Transform that provides autono...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS launches a new continuous modernization capability in AWS Transform that provides autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation at scale. Published context: June 15, 2026. Today, AWS Transform announces a new continuous modernization capability (Preview) that autonomously detects, prioritizes, and remediates tech debt across enterprise software portfolios. AWS Transform already helps enterprises migrate out of data centers, modernize mainframe and Windows applications, and modernize codebases for common scenarios such as versi ...

Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys. Published context: June 20, 2026. Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that’s installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as configuration data, API ke ...

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is now generally available

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is now generally available. Published context: June 17, 2026. Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service, is now generally available. With Managed Knowledge Base, developers can build production-ready AI agents grounded in enterprise data without managing vector databases, data pipelines, or retrieval infrastructure. The service handles data ingestion, storage op The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in th ...

AWS Security Agent adds Kiro Power, Claude Code, simulated validations and new integrations...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent adds Kiro Power, Claude Code, simulated validations and new integrations support. Published context: June 17, 2026. AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) adds support for Kiro and Claude Code, enabling developers to trigger security scans directly from their development environment. AWS Security Agent now also validates code scanner findings by simulating exploits in a sandbox environment and providing proof of exploit, so teams can trust their results, minimize ...