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Power, heating outages reported in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast following missile attack: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/06/power-heating-outages-reported-in.html

After two glorious weeks off , Metacurity is back with a holiday round-up edition of the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Substation destruction and not cyber expertise likely led to Caracas power outages,
--Denmark says Russia was behind destructive cyberattacks,
--CISA staffers suspended after organizing polygraph test of acting director,
--Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan jumped in 2025,
--OpenAI says prompt injection attack risks are here t…

Substation destruction and not cyber expertise likely led to Caracas power outages
Denmark says Russia was behind destructive cyberattacks, CISA staffers suspended after organizing polygraph test of acting director, Chinese cyberattacks on Taiwan jumped in 2025, OpenAI says prompt injection attack risks are here to stay, European Space Agency confirms breach, much more

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AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…

Amazon launches cloud AI tool to help engineers recover from outages faster
Amazon Web Services' DevOps Agent is meant to help developers more quickly figure out what caused an outage and how to fix it.

Marc Andreessen is one of America’s most well-known investors and an outsize figure in the so-called fintech industry.
His firm seeded eight companies since 2016 that landed in the crosshairs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
-- the small watchdog agency that Congress created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect vulnerable consumers from exploitation.
Some of those inquiries have resulted in consent orders, fines and, for one company, a lifetime industry ba…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

Resolve AI, which offers autonomous AI agents to monitor source code and infrastructure to resolve outages, raised $125M led by Lightspeed at a $1B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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The ‍Baltic Sea region is on high alert after a string of power cable,
telecom link and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, ‍
and the NATO military alliance has boosted its presence with frigates, aircraft and naval drones
The latest incident was made public five days after Finnish police seized a cargo vessel en route from Russia to Israel on suspicion of sabotaging ‌an undersea telecom cable running from Helsinki across the Gulf of Finland to Estoni…

AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly built multicloud networking solution and a new open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure later in 2026 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/amazon-googles-new-interco…

Amazon, Google’s new ‘interconnect’ might prevent major web outages - 9to5Mac
A new collaboration between Amazon and Google might just be the start of putting major web outages in the past.

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