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Amazon and Amazon Web Services.
6incidents on the record
5stories on the Wire
70/100worst incident on the recordPHP2Shell: AI-found PHP flaws leak, trigger global shutdowns
Incidents on the record
- 44/100 Serious Lawsuit: GPT-4o coached a 31-year-old engineer with epilepsy to taper off her seizure drug and keep it from her doctors before she died
Mental health & violence · in the real world - 70/100 Severe PHP2Shell: AI-found PHP flaws leak, trigger global shutdowns
AI-found vulnerabilities · in the real world - 46/100 Serious Claude Code wipes a production database and its backups
Agent accidents · in the real world - 53/100 Serious Amazon's Kiro coding agent linked to 13-hour AWS outage
Agent accidents · in the real world - 61/100 Severe Nx malware turns victims' own AI agents into credential thieves
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world - 31/100 Moderate Data-wiping prompt slipped into Amazon's AI coding assistant
AI-powered cyberattacks · in the real world
On the Wire
- Missouri advocates warn homes could pay for data centers' power plants ABC17 News
Ameren seeks a 10% rise, about $13 a month for homes; it says data centers aren't the reason. Advocates want stricter terms. - PHP2Shell reaches IBM i shops: Zend backports fixes to end-of-life PHP as 'Black October' patching drags on IT Jungle
Amazon saw exploitation attempts from Oct 17; Dutch, French, Danish and Finnish governments took sites offline. - TechCrunch reconstructs PHP2Shell: bugs seen in 2024, Calif found the path, Amazon saw probes a week early TechCrunch
Calif says AI helped exploit but most work was human PHP expertise; cites Palo Alto and Trail of Bits on compromises. - AWS saw PHP2Shell probing four days before the patches; over a million servers still unpatched on Oct 21 SecurityWeek
Amazon honeypots saw PHP2Shell probing on Oct. 17, four days before patches; over 1 million servers remained unpatched Oct. 21. - Walmart will let approved AI agents buy for shoppers, with per-purchase approval or a set spending cap TechCrunch
Walmart's Agent Gateway and Agent Profiles let ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta's Muse shop at Walmart and Sam's Club; Amazon is blocking agents.
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