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Cryptomining attack on an AI gateway reveals a much bigger cloud security problem
Hackers broke into an Amazon cloud server acting as a doorway to AI services, planted mining software, and probed for wider access. The real worry is how much power these AI gateways hold.
One Person, 72 Hours, One Wrecked AWS Account: How AI Handed a Lone Criminal the Keys to a Global Enterprise
Security firm Sygnia says a single attacker used artificial intelligence to tear through a major cloud environment at a pace that would normally require a full criminal crew. The unnamed victim was extorted.
An AI Coding Tool Built Into Millions of Developer Setups Had a Flaw That Could Hand Hackers Your Cloud Keys
A security hole in Amazon's AI coding assistant let criminals steal cloud passwords just by getting a developer to open a poisoned folder. It's patched — but the attack method is spreading.
Amazon Patches CVE-2026-12957 in Q Developer: Malicious Repo Could Drain AWS Credentials via MCP
A workspace-trust prompt was all that stood between a developer and credential theft. Amazon has shipped a fix for the high-severity flaw in its AI coding assistant.
AWS Continuum Wants to Close the Gap Between AI-Generated Code and AI-Fixed Vulnerabilities
Amazon's new agentic security service promises continuous discovery, triage, and remediation. In practice, it's a bet that the same AI acceleration creating your backlog can also drain it.
PCPJack Turns 230 Hijacked Cloud Servers Into a Stealth SMTP Relay Grid
Compromised AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure instances were quietly converted into verified mail relays and resold downstream every five minutes.