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Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access. Published context: July 21, 2026. Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware on victim environments. Arctic Wolf Labs said it investigated multiple intrusions in June 2026 that began with the exploitation of CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass f ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Selectively log network activity events by identity in AWS CloudTrail. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS launches enhanced event filtering for network activity events for VPC end points, a CloudTrail event type that captures actions transmitted through a Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint . Customers can now control which network activity events are logged based on the IAM user identity making the API call. For example, you can configure selectors to log ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Published context: July 21, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 brings AI integration directly into the database engine, enabling customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL without additional middleware. Customers running RDS for SQL Server can ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch announces coding agent insights. Published context: July 20, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch announces the launch of coding agent insights, giving engineering leaders visibility into how AI coding tools are driving value across their organization. Coding Agent Insights integrates with Claude apps gateway for AWS to collect telemetry from Claude Code without additional instrumentation. Other supported coding agents include Codex and 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. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution. Published context: July 21, 2026. Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it’s observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 (CVSS score: 9.5), a sandbox escape vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to run arbitrary ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Data Exports now provides standardized Amazon Bedrock product metadata. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock in AWS Data Exports (Cost and Usage Report), giving FinOps teams and cloud administrators consistent, structured attributes to understand Bedrock costs. AWS Data Exports lets you create customized exports of your AWS cost and usage data and deliver them to Amazon S3 for querying with Amazo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece. The Athens Local Zone is the second Local Zone in EMEA with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to store and process data within Greece to help meet local data residency require ...

Today’s signal AWS News Blog recently reported AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026). Published context: July 20, 2026. Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seoul. My team regularly visits countries across the Asia-Pacific region, listens to feedback […] ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access. Published context: July 19, 2026. A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public disclosure since June 22, 2026. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0533. The discovery was made following an incident res ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications. Published context: July 14, 2026. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills that give AI coding assistants expert, up-to-date guidance for building and operating Flink applications. The skills provide expert guidance for common tasks such as creating applications, troubleshooting, scaling, monitoring, networking configuration, and cost optimization. Customers can lev ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8g and M8g database instances in additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 15, 2026. AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Melbourne, Malaysia), Europe (London, Paris, Zurich), AWS GovCloud (US-East), South America (Sao Paulo), and Mexico (Central) regions. Additionally, M8g ins ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines. Published context: July 20, 2026. Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new software supply chain attack codenamed SleeperGem targeting the Ruby ecosystem after three malicious gems were published to RubyGems with the end goal of serving additional payloads. The rogue gems are listed below - git_credential_manager (versions 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3) - Published on July 18, 2026 Dendreo ...