Security News > 2023 > October > AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage

Interview AWS has unveiled MadPot, its previously secret threat-intelligence tool that one of the cloud giant's security execs tells us has thwarted Chinese and Russian spies - and millions of bots.

The massive honeypot system has been around since 2010, and includes tens of thousands of threat sensors monitoring criminals' attempts to connect with AWS decoys.

Even though it's been under development and in use for 13 years, AWS just this week went public with details about MadPot and some of the attacks it has thwarted.

"We do keep a huge security data lake of all the past interactions" with MadPot, Mark Ryland, director of the Office of the CISO for AWS, told The Register.

Using MadPot's intel, AWS identified the IP addresses and other attributes tied to Sandworm being used in attempts to compromise one of its customers.

Like everyone else keeping a close eye on the threat landscape, AWS has seen a massive influx in the number of network-flooding DDoS attempts.

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