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Vulnerabilities

One Hacked Shark Robot Vacuum Can Hand an Attacker the Keys to Every Shark Vacuum in the Region

A researcher pulled a security key off a $500 robot vacuum and used it to run commands on other people's Shark vacuums, including reading their Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext.

4 min read
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AI Security

AI Is Making Rich Organisations Even Safer. What Happens to Everyone Else?

A growing body of security leaders says artificial intelligence is deepening a divide that has existed for years between well-resourced organisations and those just trying to keep the lights on.

4 min read
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AI Security

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.

3 min read
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Cloud Security

One Person, 72 Hours, One Wrecked AWS Account: How AI Handed a Lone Criminal the Keys to a Global Enterprise

Incident-response firm Sygnia says a single attacker used AI to tear through a major cloud environment at a pace that would normally require a full criminal crew. The unnamed victim was extorted.

3 min read
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AI Security

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 credentials just by getting a developer to open a poisoned folder. It's patched, but the attack method is spreading.

3 min read
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Vulnerabilities

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.

3 min read
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Cloud Security

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.

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