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Amazon's AI coding assistant exposed nearly 1 million users to potential system wipe | The hacker said the point was to spotlight Amazon's lax security practices
The attacker was able to inject unauthorized code into the assistant's open-source GitHub repository. This code included instructions that, if successfully triggered, could have deleted user files...
This code included instructions that, if successfully triggered, could have deleted user files and wiped cloud resources associated with Amazon Web Services accounts. Once accepted, the hacker inserted a prompt instructing the AI agent to "clean a system to a near-factory state and delete file-system and cloud resources." The malicious code made it into an official release because Amazon's verification processes failed to detect the unauthorized pull request, Vaughan-Nichols wrote.
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