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  • Krebs on Security: Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/bulletproof-host-stark-industries-evades-eu-sanctions/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions Feedly Summary: In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and…

  • The Register: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/cobalt_strikes_ai_successor_downloaded/ Source: The Register Title: AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months Feedly Summary: Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack – sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as “Cobalt Strike’s…

  • Cloud Blog: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/prove-your-expertise-with-our-new-secops-engineer-certification/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Prove your expertise with our Professional Security Operations Engineer certification Feedly Summary: Security leaders are clear about their priorities: After AI, cloud security is the top training topic for decision-makers. As threats against cloud workloads become more sophisticated, organizations are looking for highly-skilled professionals to help defend against…

  • Cloud Blog: Building scalable, resilient enterprise networks with Network Connectivity Center

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/resiliency-with-network-connectivity-center/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Building scalable, resilient enterprise networks with Network Connectivity Center Feedly Summary: For large enterprises adopting a cloud platform, managing network connectivity across VPCs, on-premises data centers, and other clouds is critical. However, traditional models often lack scalability and increase management overhead. Google Cloud’s Network Connectivity Center is a…

  • The Register: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/vmscape_spectre_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre haunts CPUs again: VMSCAPE vulnerability leaks cloud secrets Feedly Summary: AMD Zen hardware and Intel Coffee Lake affected If you thought the world was done with side-channel CPU attacks, think again. ETH Zurich has identified yet another Spectre-based transient execution vulnerability that affects AMD Zen CPUs and…

  • Anchore: NPM Supply Chain Breach Response for Anchore Enterprise and Grype Users

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    Source URL: https://anchore.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-breach-response-for-anchore-enterprise-and-grype-users/ Source: Anchore Title: NPM Supply Chain Breach Response for Anchore Enterprise and Grype Users Feedly Summary: On September 8, 2025 Anchore was made aware of an incident involving a number of popular NPM packages to insert malware. The technical details of the attack can be found in the Aikido blog post: npm…

  • Slashdot: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/10/2039218/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Developers Joke About ‘Coding Like Cavemen’ As AI Service Suffers Major Outage Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent outage of Anthropic’s AI services, impacting developers’ access to Claude.ai and related tools. This transient disruption highlights concerns about the reliability of AI infrastructures,…

  • AWS Open Source Blog: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/strands-agents-and-the-model-driven-approach/ Source: AWS Open Source Blog Title: Strands Agents and the Model-Driven Approach Feedly Summary: Until recently, building AI agents meant wrestling with complex orchestration frameworks. Developers wrote elaborate state machines, predefined workflows, and extensive error-handling code to guide language models through multi-step tasks. We needed to build elaborate decision trees to handle…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude API: Web fetch tool

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/10/claude-web-fetch-tool/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude API: Web fetch tool Feedly Summary: Claude API: Web fetch tool New in the Claude API: if you pass the web-fetch-2025-09-10 beta header you can add {“type": "web_fetch_20250910", "name": "web_fetch", "max_uses": 5} to your "tools" list and Claude will gain the ability to fetch content from…