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Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

The bad extension was live on the VS Code marketplace for two days, though it appears that the intent was more to embarrass ...

Hacker Exposes Amazon Q Security Flaws Using Covert Code

A hacker recently injected code into Amazon Q in order to warn users of the platform’s potential security flaws. But the ...

Code syntax error prevented hacked AWS AI dev extension from running

AWS has removed the threat actor's code from the repository, and revoked and replaced credentials. The access token flaw came ...
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Forked Again: AWS's Kiro Is Latest AI Assistant Based on VS Code

AWS has launched Kiro, a spec-driven, agentic AI IDE based on Visual Studio Code. It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks built for AI-assisted development, and it arrives just as Microsoft pushes ...