Nation state-sponsored advanced persistent threats Sandworm and Volt Typhoon and various distributed denial-of-service botnets were noted by Amazon Web Services to have been thwarted using its new MadPot internal threat intelligence decoy system, reports SecurityWeek. Over 100 million possible threats are being tracked by MadPot using sensors and automotive response functionality, with nearly half a million of which being categorized as malicious, according to AWS.

Source: SC Magazine