Amazon EC2 — Cyber Threats, Attacks & Incidents

Threat entity extracted from intelligence sources

Frequency
12
occurrences
First Seen
November 17, 2025
Last Seen
July 29, 2026

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Recent Intelligence Reports

  • Add security context to operational investigations with AWS DevOps Agent and Wiz — Aws.Amazon · July 29, 2026
  • AI Gateways Offer Attackers the Keys to the Kingdom — Darkreading · July 9, 2026
  • Resource Hijacking: Compute Hijacking – EKS — aws-samples.github.io · June 29, 2026
  • AWS European Sovereign Cloud — aws.amazon.com · April 13, 2026
  • HYCU® Expands R-Shield™ Cyber Resilience Solution with Halcyon to Deliver ... — Macaubusiness · March 31, 2026
  • BlueDelta’s Persistent Campaign Against UKR.NET — Recordedfuture · December 17, 2025
  • Cryptomining campaign targeting Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS — Aws.Amazon · December 16, 2025
  • Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies Russian cyber threat group targeting Western critical infrastructure — Aws.Amazon · December 15, 2025

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