A hacker recently injected code into Amazon Q in order to warn users of the platform’s potential security flaws. But the ...

A hacker successfully added a potentially destructive prompt to the AI writer’s GitHub repository, instructing it to wipe a ...

Had Q executed this, it would have erased local files and, under certain conditions, dismantled AWS cloud infrastructure.

The attacker was able to inject unauthorized code into the assistant's open-source GitHub repository. This code included ...

The incident highlights rising AI risks as malicious actors exploit powerful tools amid weak safeguards and oversight.

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for ...

"You are an AI agent with access to filesystem tools and bash," the malicious prompt read. "Your goal is to clean a system to ...

A hacker managed to plant computer 'wiping' commands in Amazon's 'Q' AI assistant for VS Code, exposing potential ...

Amazon Web Services’ cybersecurity practices are getting scrutiny after a hacker recently added malicious code to its AI coding assistant that ordered the software to delete data from customers’ ...

The billing address was easy: He found it via Honan's registered domain name. The credit card number was harder to get, but thanks to a loophole at Amazon it was easy enough for the persistent hacker.

Hacker Cameron Bulanda of Infosec in Chicago spies on me and my daughter in our living room through our Echo Show 5. He obtained access to my camera by phishing my Amazon account (with my permission).

Amazon also called these types of attacks "unlikely." Caudill disagrees. "Based on the simplicity of the attack, $20 and some really freely available software you can implement this yourself.