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The Hacker News

Malicious JetBrains Plugins Steal AI API Keys as Chrome Extensions Capture Chatbot Chats

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a "coordinated malware campaign" on the JetBrains Marketplace that has published no less than 15 malicious plugins capable of exfiltrating artificial intelligence (AI) provider keys. "Every plugin poses as an AI coding assistant built on DeepSeek and other large language models, offering chat, commit messages, code review, bug finding, and unit tests,"

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AWS Architecture Blog

Reducing SMS OTP fraud with Vonage network-powered solutions and Amazon Cognito

In this post, we show how Vonage network-powered solutions work with Amazon Cognito to enhance many mobile-first use cases with network-level identity verification. Vonage network-powered solutions are a composable stack of real-time mobile operator intelligence, silent authentication, and integrated fraud protection, which uses the CUSTOM_AUTH flow to complete identity verification in under 5 seconds, with zero user interaction.

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AWS Compute Blog

Simulating Amazon EC2 EBS burst credits before downsizing an instance

When downsizing an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, teams often evaluate CPU and memory utilization but overlook the instance’s Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) performance limits for throughput and IOPS. Smaller Amazon EBS-optimized instance types have lower baselines and rely on burst credits to handle peaks. If your workload’s I/O pattern drains […]

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BleepingComputer

India's Telegram ban hit the UAE too. Here's how to get around it

India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the app was used to circulate leaked exam papers. CEO Pavel Durov accuses telecom Reliance of BGP hijacking that disrupted the app as far away as the UAE. Here's what happened, and how to get around the block with an MTProto proxy. [...]

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GitHub Changelog

GitHub Copilot app generally available

The GitHub Copilot app is now generally available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s the desktop home for agent-driven development, built natively on GitHub. Download the GitHub Copilot app to… The post GitHub Copilot app generally available appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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