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DZone

Inside terraform-provider-archive: A Memory Pattern From 2016 That Scales With Your Lambdas

A CI Runner That Shouldn't Have Died If you deploy AWS Lambdas through Terraform, you almost certainly use archive_file. With enough lambdas, a single terraform apply can kill the CI runner with OOM. The trickiest part is that you will not see any errors in Terraform output and have no clue what just happened. I noticed this when my lambdas started failing — every first terraform apply after a routine change. SIGKILL from the kernel OOM killer and nothing in Terraform logs. The strange part is t

ExternalDevOps
Docker Blog

Secure by default is your only way forward

The newest worker on your team builds with whatever it finds and never asks what deserves your trust. Our answer is a hardened foundation and a boundary built for agents.

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Cloudflare Blog

Introducing Adaptive Intelligence: Undermining the economics of every bot attack

Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new Adaptive Intelligence engine flips this dynamic by autonomously learning from the meta-signals of live traffic and deploying disposable rules, making automated attacks too expensive to sustain.

Application SecurityBot ManagementMachine Learning
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The Hacker News

ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool

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SecurityWeek

Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections

The AI giant is logging customers out of their accounts and removing payment data to prevent unauthorized Claude usage. The post Anthropic Warns Claude Users of Infostealer Malware Infections appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Artificial IntelligenceMalware & ThreatsAI
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