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CERT-EU: European Commission hack exposes data of 30 EU entities
The European Union’s Cybersecurity Service (CERT-EU) has attributed the European Commission cloud hack to the TeamPCP threat group, saying the resulting breach exposed the data of at least 29 other Union entities. The European Commission publicly disclosed the incident on March 27 after GeekFeed reached out for confirmation that the Amazon cloud environment of the European Union’s main executive […]
European Commission confirms data breach after Europa.eu hack
The European Commission has confirmed a data breach after its Europa.eu web platform was hacked in a cyberattack claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang. GeekFeed first reported on Friday that this breach affects at least one of the Commission’s AWS (Amazon Web Services) accounts. The Commission says the attack didn’t disrupt any Europa websites and that its […]
European Commission investigating breach after Amazon cloud hack
The European Commission, the European Union’s main executive body, is investigating a security breach after a threat actor gained access to its Amazon cloud infrastructure. Although the EU’s executive cabinet has yet to disclose the incident publicly, GeekFeed has learned that the breach affected at least one account used to manage the compromised cloud infrastructure. […]
Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East
Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services. While the company didn’t provide further details on the incident, the attacks are likely part […]
Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 Fortinet firewalls in 5 weeks
Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached more than 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks. A new report by CJ Moses, CISO of Amazon Integrated Security, says that the hacking campaign occurred between January 11 and February 18, 2026, and did not rely […]
Amazon: Ongoing cryptomining campaign uses hacked AWS accounts
Amazon’s AWS GuardDuty security team is warning of an ongoing crypto-mining campaign that targets its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Elastic Container Service (ECS) using compromised credentials for Identity and Access Management (IAM). The operation started on November 2nd and employed a persistence mechanism that extended mining operations and hindered incident responders. The threat actor used a Docker […]
Amazon disrupts Russian GRU hackers attacking edge network devices
The Amazon Threat Intelligence team has disrupted active operations attributed to hackers working for the Russian foreign military intelligence agency, the GRU, who targeted customers’ cloud infrastructure. The cloud services provider observed a focus on Western critical infrastructure, especially the energy sector, in activity that started in 2021. Over time, the threat actor pivoted from exploiting […]
Amazon: This week’s AWS outage caused by major DNS failure
Amazon says a major DNS failure was behind a massive AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage that took down many websites and online services on Monday. As GeekFeed reported earlier this week, this incident impacted a critical Northern Virginia data center in the US-EAST-1 region, affecting users worldwide, including the United States and Europe, for over […]
Amazon pays $2.5 billion to settle Prime memberships lawsuit
Amazon will pay $2.5 billion to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that it used dark patterns to trick millions of users into enrolling in its Prime program and made it as difficult as possible to cancel the recurring subscriptions. The settlement requires Amazon to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and […]
Amazon disrupts Russian APT29 hackers targeting Microsoft 365
Researchers have disrupted an operation attributed to the Russian state-sponsored threat group Midnight Blizzard, which sought access to Microsoft 365 accounts and data. Also known as APT29, the hacker group compromised websites in a watering hole campaign to redirect selected targets “to malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices through Microsoft’s device code […]