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incidents/AIR-2025-0019

Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant Release

Attack on AI3 Confirmed exploitationSupply chain

An Amazon AI coding assistant update allegedly contained wiping commands that reached a public release before removal. The incident involved unauthorized code insertion into an AI developer tool.

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Supply chain
    Malicious or backdoored models, poisoned packages, unsafe deserialization and other compromised AI dependencies.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Amazon
products
Amazon Q
incident date
17 Jul 2025
first reported
17 Jul 2025
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.85 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
supply-chain · amazon-q · code-injection
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2025-07-17
    Alleged Malicious Wiping Command Found in Amazon Q AI Assistant
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1158

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