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SecurityWeek’s cybersecurity news roundup provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar.

We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape.

Each week, we curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from the latest vulnerability discoveries and emerging attack techniques to significant policy changes and industry reports.

Here are this week’s stories:

Amazon ECS attack

Sweet Security has disclosed the details of ECScape, an attack method that enables privilege escalation in Amazon ECS from a compromised container. The security firm’s researchers managed to obtain keys that would allow an attacker to move laterally, access private repositories and secrets, and seize broad control of the cloud environment. Sweet Security said AWS acknowledged the attack could work against hundreds of millions of machines and ...