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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.