This article guides you on how to use Amazon GuardDuty to identify and mitigate cryptocurrency mining threats in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. You’ll learn about the specialized detection capabilities of GuardDuty and best practices to build a multi-layered defense strategy that protects your infrastructure costs and security posture. Understanding the crypto mining challenge…
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Amazon GuardDuty enhances detection efficacy with Sophos threat intelligence
Amazon has integrated Sophos threat intelligence into Amazon GuardDuty, expanding the breadth and accuracy of malicious threat detection for customers running workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Categories: Products & Services Tags: AWS, Sophos Intelix, amazon, Amazon GuardDuty, Sophos OEM
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GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection uncovers cryptomining campaign on Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
Amazon GuardDuty and our automated security monitoring systems identified an ongoing cryptocurrency (crypto) mining campaign beginning on November 2, 2025. The operation uses compromised AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to target Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection was able to correlate signals…