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Incident 14425 Report
Kiro AI Coding Tool Was Reportedly Implicated in 13-Hour AWS Cost Explorer Outage in Mainland China
2025-12-15
Sometime in mid-December 2025, AWS Cost Explorer in one mainland China region reportedly experienced an approximately 13-hour interruption after Amazon engineers allegedly allowed Kiro, an internal AI coding tool, to make changes and it reportedly deleted and recreated part of the working environment. Amazon reportedly disputed that account, saying the interruption was an extremely limited event caused by user error and misconfigured access controls, not AI.
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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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Threat Actor Reportedly Used AI-Assisted Workflows to Compromise AWS Environment for Extortion
2026-07-08
Sygnia reported that a threat actor apparently used purportedly AI-assisted or agentic workflows to move rapidly through an unidentified organization's AWS environment during an approximately 72-hour intrusion. The attacker allegedly expanded from an Internet-facing application into cloud infrastructure and data stores, reportedly stealing credentials and sensitive information while demonstrating the ability to disrupt services as leverage for extortion. Sygnia did not identify a specific model.
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