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AWS

Security incidents tagged AWS. Newest first.

Incidents
3
Live
0
Patched
3
Days without an incident
205
Longest quiet run: 499 days (Oct 11–Feb 20)
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February 2026 1

  • HighLexisNexis breach (FulcrumSec claims React2Shell path)

    LexisNexis Legal & Professional (legacy systems / React frontend claim) Patched

    In March 2026 LexisNexis confirmed a breach of legacy servers exposing customer business contact and related data. Threat actor FulcrumSec claimed access via an unpatched React frontend “React2Shell” (CVE-2025-55182) into AWS infrastructure. LexisNexis said the matter was contained and mostly deprecated pre-2020 data.

    Open incident →CVE-2025-55182

February 2025 1

  • CriticalNo fix needed

    Bybit loses ~$1.5B in ETH after Safe{Wallet} frontend is trojanized (North Korea)

    North Korean TraderTraitor/Lazarus hackers compromised a Safe{Wallet} developer's Mac, took over AWS session tokens and injected JavaScript into Safe's S3-hosted frontend. Bybit's signers approved what looked like a routine transfer but was a malicious transaction. It is the largest crypto theft on record; the FBI attributed it to North Korea.

    Bybit cold wallet / Safe{Wallet} web UIClosed Mar 6, 2025

August 2023 1

  • HighPatched

    HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: record-breaking DDoS attacks (CVE-2023-44487)

    Attackers abused HTTP/2 stream cancellation (open a request, reset it right away, repeat) to make servers do work at enormous rates. Peaks hit 398M req/s at Google, 201M at Cloudflare and 155M at AWS. Almost every HTTP/2 server and proxy needed a fix, including Node.js, Go, Java servers, .NET/IIS and nginx.

    HTTP/2 protocol implementations (servers, proxies, CDNs)Closed Oct 10, 2023

1 AWS incident in the last 12 months

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