A while back, my ZDNET colleague David Gewirtz worried that someday AI coding agents could destroy open-source software. That day has come. A hacker managed to plant destructive wiping commands into Amazon's "Q" AI coding agent. 

This has s…

WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Amazon's generative AI coding assistant, Amazon Q, was compromised by a hacker who injected malicious code into the tool's GitHub repository. The code instructed the AI to wipe users' systems and cloud resources. Amazon…

Scope: AWS
Content Type: Important (requires attention)
Publication Date: 2025/07/23 6:00 PM PDT
Updated Date: 2025/07/25 6:00 PM PDT

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Amazon Q Developer for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Extension is a development tool that inte…