- Cloud Security Newsletter
- Authors
- Ashish Rajan
🚨IDEsaster: AI IDE Vulnerabilities Turn Developer Tools into an Enterprise Attack Surface
This week covers a new class of AI supply chain attacks targeting developer workflows. Security researchers disclosed 24 CVE-assigned vulnerabilities across popular AI-enhanced IDEs, where prompt injection enables remote code execution, data exfiltration, and credential theft directly from developer machines.We also unpack ServiceNow’s reported $7B Armis acquisition as a signal of asset visibility convergence and why Rubrik’s Matt Castriotta argues identity backup is now non-negotiable for real cyber resilience.
🚨 Zero-Day Exploited in Hours + AI Agent Risk Lessons from CISO of Sendbird
This week's newsletter covers critical React Server Components vulnerability (CVE-2025-55182) under active exploitation by Chinese APT groups, record-breaking DDoS attacks, and exclusive insights from Sendbird CSO Yash Kosaraju on securing AI agents through multi-layered trust frameworks, enterprise LLM safeguards, and cultural transformation in the age of autonomous systems
🚨 ServiceNow Acquires Veza for $1B* as Identity Becomes Critical Attack Vector: Lessons from Building Cloud-Native Data Lakes at Scale
This week covers ServiceNow's strategic $1B* acquisition of identity security firm Veza, the Oracle E-Business Suite zero-day campaign affecting 100+ organizations, and Claude AI plugins shown deploying ransomware. Security expert Cliff Crosford shares hard-won lessons from building security data lakes at scale, addressing SIEM cost challenges, and implementing AI-driven detection pipelines for enterprise cloud security teams.
🚨 Sha1-Hulud Worm Exposes 25K+ Repos: Lessons from Building Trustworthy AI SOCs For Regulated Environments
This week: Supply chain attacks compromise enterprise CI/CD pipelines as 600+ npm packages fall to self-replicating malware. Former Mandiant SOC leader Grant Oviatt reveals how Prophet Security achieves 99.3% investigation accuracy with AI agents in regulated environments completing triage in 4 minutes versus traditional teams' multi-hour cycles. Learn the architecture requirements for explainability, traceability, and data sovereignty that regulators demand from AI-driven security operations.
🚨 Cloudflare Outage & $3.35B Palo Alto Deal: Lessons from Swiss Insurance’s Multi-Cloud Migration
This week’s Cloud Security Newsletter covers the $3.35B Palo Alto–Chronosphere acquisition, Cloudflare’s global outage, record-breaking Azure DDoS attacks, UK’s new cyber bill, and rising AI prompt injection threats. Insights from Swiss Insurance’s cloud architect Matthias Mertens reveal enterprise-tested strategies for multi-cloud migration, Terraform automation at scale, and serverless modernization
🚨 Container Escape + AI Agent Risk: Lessons from Box’s Security Lead
This week's newsletter examines critical runC container escape vulnerabilities affecting all major cloud providers, the evolving threat landscape of AI agent exploitation, and practical security controls for agentic AI systems. Learn from Box's Mohan Kumar, Production Security Lead with 14 years in cybersecurity about memory poisoning attacks, tool misuse patterns, and the three-layer security evolution needed for AI agent production deployments. Plus: Active Cisco firewall zero-day exploitation, China-linked Congressional Budget Office breach, and Google Cloud's 2026 forecast predicting surge in prompt injection attacks.
🚨 DOJ clears Google Wiz Purchase: How Bloomberg Navigate AI-Powered Security at Scale
This week we explore breaking vulnerabilities in Microsoft Teams enabling message manipulation and caller ID forgery, AI-powered malware with self-modifying capabilities discovered by Google, and exclusive insights from Bloomberg's application security leader and cloud security architects on breaking down silos between AppSec and CloudSec teams as AI transforms the enterprise security landscape.
🚨 Atlas AI Security Breach + Critical WSUS Flaw: The Real ROI of AI-Augmented SOC Teams
This week's newsletter examines CISA's urgent WSUS vulnerability mandate, OpenAI Atlas browser's prompt injection vulnerabilities, and the evolution of AI-powered threats including APT28's LameHug malware. Learn how Dropzone's Cloud Security Alliance research demonstrates 45-60% faster alert investigation with AI-augmented SOC analysts, alongside insights on ransomware payment decline to 23% and operational strategies for securing hybrid cloud environments in 2025.
🚨$1.73B Veeam–Securiti AI Deal + F5 Zero-Day Risk: Reality of Building an AI-Native SOC Architecture
This week's newsletter covers critical infrastructure threats including the F5 BIG-IP breach enforcement, AWS US-East-1 outage resilience lessons, and AI security vulnerabilities. We feature Ariful Huq from Exaforce on building AI-native SOC platforms beyond traditional SIEM architectures, exploring data lake design, detection engineering at scale, and the evolution of security operations teams.
🚨 F5 BIG-IP Breach Exposes Supply Chain Risk: Lessons from Automating Incident Response in Hybrid Cloud Environments
Nation-state hackers didn’t just breach F5, they exposed how fragile cloud-era supply chains remain. Add Harvard’s Oracle zero-day and GitHub’s AI-powered data leak, and you see why automation, not dashboards, defines modern incident response.Featured expert Damien Burks shares proven strategies for automating incident response in containerized environments, particularly for Kubernetes and EKS clusters in regulated industries.