Stablecoins Speed Up Thanks to ‘AWS of Crypto’ Alchemy’s Latest Upgrade

Stablecoins, the dollar-pegged tokens that now rival the volumes of Visa and Mastercard for international payments, are about to get faster. While their traditional finance rivals can process upwards of 65,000 transactions a second (TPS), the web of decentralized blockchains in existence today offer a variety of latency values. However, the connections between large chunks … Read more

Amazon Announces New AI Chip for AWS Amid Competition With Microsoft

Amazon.com on Tuesday announced a new artificial intelligence chip for its cloud computing service as competition with Microsoft to dominate the market for artificial intelligence heats up. At a conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Chief Executive Adam Selipsky announced Trainium2, the second generation of chip designed for training AI systems. Selipsky said … Read more

Inside the Massive AWS Cloud Breach: How Exploited .env Files Led to a Global Extortion Campaign

Introduction In a groundbreaking cyber attack, a sophisticated threat actor launched a large-scale extortion campaign that exploited vulnerabilities in cloud systems. Targeting over 230 million unique cloud environments, the attack leveraged exposed environment variable (.env) files to gain unauthorized access and execute a comprehensive data exfiltration and extortion scheme. This blog provides an in-depth analysis … Read more