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GCP – New Group on the Block: UNC5142 Leverages EtherHiding to Distribute Malware
Written by: Mark Magee, Jose Hernandez, Bavi Sadayappan, Jessa Valdez Since late 2023, Mandiant Threat Defense and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have tracked UNC5142, a financially motivated threat actor that abuses the blockchain to facilitate the distribution of information stealers (infostealers). UNC5142 is characterized by its use of compromised WordPress websites and “EtherHiding“, a […]
GCP – DPRK Adopts EtherHiding: Nation-State Malware Hiding on Blockchains
Written by: Blas Kojusner, Robert Wallace, Joseph Dobson Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed the North Korea (DPRK) threat actor UNC5342 using ‘EtherHiding’ to deliver malware and facilitate cryptocurrency theft, the first time GTIG has observed a nation-state actor adopting this method. This post is part of a two-part blog series on adversaries using EtherHiding, […]
GCP – The ultimate prompting guide for Veo 3.1
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million. For creators, generative video holds the promise of bringing any story or concept to life. However, the reality has often been a frustrating cycle of “prompt and pray” – typing a prompt and hoping for a usable result, with little to […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions
AWS today announced Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances availability in US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (UAE), and Europe (Spain), bringing Amazon WorkSpaces capabilities to these AWS Regions for the first time. WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances in these Regions is supported by partners including Citrix, Workspot, Leostream, and Dizzion. […]
GCP – Google is named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SIEM
The evolving security landscape demands more than just speed. It requires an intelligent, automated defense. Google Security Operations is an AI-powered platform built to deliver a modern agentic security operations center (SOC), where generative AI is woven into the fabric of your operations. We go beyond traditional SIEM and SOAR by using AI as a […]
GCP – Gemini Code Assist brings enterprise-grade AI code reviews to GitHub
For engineering teams, a critical DORA metric is “Lead Time for Changes,” which measures the time from a code commit to its deployment in production. The 2025 State of AI-Assisted Development Report underscores that manual code review and approval processes are a significant bottleneck, negatively impacting this metric. The report reveals that a combined 60.2% […]
GCP – Save costs and decrease latency while using Gemini with Vertex AI context caching
As developers build increasingly sophisticated AI applications, they often encounter scenarios where substantial amounts of contextual information — be it a lengthy document, a detailed set of system instructions, a code base — need to be repeatedly sent to the model. While this data provides models with much-needed context for their responses, it often escalates […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker is now available
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker, enabling near real-time data availability for analytics workloads. This integration automatically extracts and loads data from PostgreSQL tables into your lakehouse where it’s immediately accessible through various analytics engines and machine learning tools. The data synced into the lakehouse is compatible with Apache Iceberg […]
AWS – DeepSeek, OpenAI, and Qwen models available in Amazon Bedrock in additional Regions
Amazon Bedrock is bringing DeepSeek-V3.1, OpenAI open-weight models, and Qwen3 models to more AWS Regions worldwide, expanding access to cutting-edge AI for customers across the globe. This regional expansion enables organizations in more countries and territories to deploy these powerful foundation models locally, ensuring compliance with data residency requirements, reducing network latency, and delivering faster […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock simplifies access with automatic enablement of serverless foundation models
Amazon Bedrock now provides immediate access to all serverless foundation models by default for users in all commercial AWS regions. This update eliminates the need for manually activating model access, allowing you to instantly start using these models through the Amazon Bedrock console playground, AWS SDK, and Amazon Bedrock features including Agents, Flows, Guardrails, Knowledge […]