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Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers

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Incident 11583 Report
Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

2025-07-17

A reported compromise of Amazon's AI coding assistant "Q" allegedly involved the insertion of commands that, if executed, could have wiped local files and potentially affected cloud resources. The altered code was reportedly incorporated into a public release before being detected and removed.

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Amazon

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1158
    3 Reports

    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

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Amazon Web Services

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1158
    3 Reports

    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

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AWS

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 1158
    3 Reports

    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

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aws tOOLKIT USERS

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1158
    3 Reports

    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

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Amazon Q users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1158
    3 Reports

    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

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Amazon Q AI coding assistant (AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1158
    3 Reports

    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

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Amazon Q Developer Extension v1.84.0

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1158
    3 Reports

    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

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GitHub repository for Amazon Q / AWS Toolkit

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1158
    3 Reports

    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant

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