DevOps

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets. Published context: August 31, 2026. Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime gro ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2026 Release Update. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle July 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c and 26ai. We recommend upgrading to the July 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. Starting with July 2026 releases, the naming format for an RU in Oracle Database 19c changes t ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Amazon Kiro Prompt Injection Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data Through Kiro Powers. Published context: August 27, 2026. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate data exfiltration via prompt injection and Kiro Powers. The security flaw, which does not have a CVE identifier, works against Kiro IDE 0.7.45 on Windows, accordin ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. Published context: August 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better pri ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported ownCloud Flaw Exploited to Steal Nuclear Records From Philippine Research Body. Published context: August 28, 2026. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting ownCloud to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports that a Chinese-speaking threat actor weaponized the vulnerability to target a nuclear research body in the Philippines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-491 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. Published context: August 28, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. The C8gn instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nit ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face. Published context: August 27, 2026. OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by wha ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: August 27, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the c ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported CISA Adds Six Exploited Flaws to KEV, Including NetScaler, Linux, and SQL Server Bugs. Published context: August 27, 2026. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2019-1068 - A remote code ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8id instances are now available in additional regions. R8id instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland, Stockholm). R8id instances feature up to 22.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage, 3x more than R6id, and provide up to 3.3x higher memory bandwi ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Critical Gitea RCE Actively Exploited as Reported Attack Drops Miner-Like Payload. Published context: August 26, 2026. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation efforts targeting a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Gitea. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of remote code execution that allows an attacker with ordinary write access to a repository to execute ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes and improvements added by the PostgreSQL commu ...