AWS, Cloudflare, Google, Helped Feds Identify DDOS Suspect

AWS, Cloudflare, Google, helped Feds identify DDOS suspect

Infosec in brief: Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage

Cloudflare Outage: Traffic Surge Disrupts AWS us-east-1 in 2025

In the early hours of August 21, 2025, Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure giant, faced a significant network disruption that rippled through its global operations. The incident stemmed from an unexpected surge in legitimate traffic targeting clients hosted in Amazon Web Services’ us-east-1 region, leading to severe congestion on the interconnect links between Cloudflare’s network and AWS. This bottleneck caused elevated latency and error ra…

AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp

PLUS: Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage Infosec in brief PLUS . . .