ZeroFox Weekly Intelligence Brief – October 25, 2025

ZeroFox Weekly Intelligence Brief – October 25, 2025

ZeroFox’s Weekly Intelligence Briefing highlights the major developments and trends across the threat landscape, including digital, cyber, and physical threats. ZeroFox Intelligence is derived from a variety of sources, including—but not limited to—curated open-source accesses, vetted social media, proprietary data sources, and direct access to threat actors and groups through covert communication channels. Information relied upon to complete any report cannot always be independently verified. As such, ZeroFox applies rigorous analytic standards and tradecraft in accordance with best practices and includes caveat language and source citations to clearly identify the veracity of our Intelligence reporting and substantiate our assessments and recommendations. All sources used in this particular Intelligence product were identified prior to 6:00 AM (EDT) on October 23, 2025; per cyber hygiene best practices, caution is advised when clicking on any third-party links.

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AWS Restores Services After Global Outage Disrupts Major Platforms

What we know:

• Amazon announced its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud service is now back to normal after an outage on October 20 disrupted businesses and websites worldwide.
• AWS traced the issue to a malfunction in a subsystem used for monitoring network load balancers.
• Services were largely restored by late afternoon Pacific Time on October 20, 2025, though some lingering delays were reported.

Russian Hackers Leak Secret RAF and Navy Base Files in UK MoD Contractor Breach

What we know:

• Russian hackers have breached a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) contractor and stolen hundreds of sensitive military documents.
• The stolen data, now leaked on the dark web, includes details of eight Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy bases.

DOJ Warns of Phishing and Spoofing Scams Following Typhoon Halong

What we know:

• The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has warned the public and victims of Typhoon Halong that fraudsters may target them in phishing and impersonation scams under the guise of disaster relief efforts.