Serious cloud vulnerabilities rise fourfold in nine months: Datadog report
The median number of high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in cloud services analysed by Datadog increased fourfold, from four in February 2026 to around 16 in November, according to the company’s State of Cloud Security 2026 report. The findings point to growing exposure across cloud applications, alongside risks from persistent AI credentials and software supply chain dependencies.
The report found that more than one in five organisations analysed by Datadog use cloud-based AI services. However, long-lived API keys used to access these services can remain valid until revoked, potentially giving attackers prolonged access if the credentials are compromised. Nearly half of organisations using Google Gemini were found to use long-lived Gemini API keys, while the corresponding figure for Amazon Bedrock was 17%.
“Attackers don’t need to use their own AI model if they can steal the key used to access yours”, said Andrew Krug, Head of Security Advocacy at Datadog. “Teams...
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