YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware use in a "time of domestic crisis" in ๐บ๐ธAmerica.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 
Design thinking that inserts brittle dependence into our lives while extracting fees for life.
Don't be these guys.
But US-EAST-1 is the legacy/default for a pile of services...and other Global Amazon services also depended on it.
So when there was trouble...it was quickly everywhere.
Hyperscalers rule *almost* everything around us. And this is absolutely bad news for all sorts of resiliency.
Amazon sez: root cause = DNS resolution with DynamoDB... which a ton depends on.
They say they are mostly mitigated & have a pile of backlog to clear.
But this is a great moment to think about just how many eggs that matter are in one basket...
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
It only cost $1.37 USD in gas fees per malware change (e.g. to update the command & control server)
Blockchains as malware dead drops are a fascinating, predictable evolution for nation state attackers.
And Blockchain explorers are a natural target.
Nearly impossible to remove.
Experimentation with putting malware on blockchains is in infancy.
Ultimately there will be some efforts to try and implement social engineering protection around this, but combined with things like agentic AI & vibe coding by low-information people...whew boy this gold seam is going to be productive for a long time.
Still, where here they used social engineering, I expect attackers to also experiment with directly loading zero click exploits onto blockchains targeting things like blockchain explorers & other systems that process blockchains... especially if they are sometimes hosted on the same systems & networks that handle transactions / have wallets.
REPORT: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dprk-adopts-etherhiding