Security research organization Ctrl-Alt-Intel disclosed that suspected North Korean hackers launched attacks against staking platforms and cryptocurrency exchanges, exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability and AWS credentials to infiltrate, steal keys and source code. The activity is consistent with North Korean attack characteristics, but the attribution confidence level is medium.

AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain were attacked by drones, causing widespread service outages. This is the first time a cloud service provider has been targeted with military strikes, affecting consumer applications in the region. AWS recommends customers migrate workloads to other regions, but the process is complex and costly. This incident could alter investors' risk assessment of the Gulf region.

OpenAI and Amazon have reached a strategic cooperation agreement, with Amazon investing $50 billion, of which $15 billion is the initial phase. The two parties will jointly develop a stateful runtime environment, with AWS becoming the exclusive cloud provider for the OpenAI Frontier platform, and will extend the long-term agreement to $100 billion. They will also collaborate on developing custom models to support Amazon developers.