In July 2025, security researchers disclosed a troubling breach involving Amazon Q, Amazon’s AI-powered coding agent embedded in the Visual Studio Code extension used by nearly a million developers. A malicious actor had successfully injected a covert “data-wiping” system prompt directly into the agent’s codebase, effectively weaponizing the AI assistant itself. What Happened The incident … Continue reading Amazon’s AI Coding Agent Compromised: Hackers Inject Data-Wiping Commands