Amazon Web Services data-centre engineer standing before server racks after a major outage

AWS Outage Forces Spotlight on Amazon Engineering Talent Loss

The recent outage at AWS’s US-EAST-1 region grounded dozens of major services and exposed a deeper issue: the loss of senior engineering expertise at Amazon. As widespread apps and platforms went offline, one question loomed large: Can the world’s largest cloud infrastructure sustain itself amid massive talent reductions? Below, we analyse the root causes, implications and lessons for infrastructure reliability.

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Custom illustration showing a Microsoft Entra guest invitation overlaid with a warning about TOAD callback phishing attacks

Hackers Exploit Microsoft Tenant Invitations for TOAD Phishing

Threat actors are abusing Microsoft Entra tenant invitations to run TOAD (Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery) phishing campaigns that look like legitimate Microsoft 365 billing notifications. Instead of pushing links or attachments, they convince users to call attacker-controlled “support” numbers, where credentials and remote-access authorizations are harvested. This analysis explains how the attack chain works, which guest invitation properties are being misused, and how security teams can hunt for and mitigate these callbacks.

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