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First reported 21 Jul · updated 29 Aug · 3 reports embracethered.com

AWS Kiro: Arbitrary Code Execution via Indirect Prompt Injection

Researchers found a vulnerability (CVE-2026-10591) in AWS Kiro, an agentic IDE, where hidden instructions planted in a web page or source file that Kiro processes can trigger indirect prompt injection to rewrite Kiro's own MCP server configuration (~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json) or allowlist arbitrary Bash commands in .vscode/settings.json, achieving arbitrary code execution on the developer's machine with no approval prompt. The human-in-the-loop approval boundary is bypassed because Kiro can write to these config files without user consent, and AWS has issued a fix and CVE.

indirect-prompt-injection · prompt-injection · remote-code-execution · tool-abuse · config-poisoning
ai-agents · mcp · llm · agentic-ide

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Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

Anthropic's September 2026 threat report describes multiple threat groups abusing its Claude models for malicious operations, including a ShinyHunters-linked actor ('frkoo') who ran an AI-assisted pipeline across AWS EC2 workers that mass-downloaded and decompiled 1.8 million Android APKs and scanned them with TruffleHog for hardcoded secrets, routing verified findings to Telegram. In another case AI agents performed nearly all of the work in a 34-hour operation extracting over 2,100 Azure AD authentication tokens across 40+ Microsoft tenants, with additional intrusions into a SaaS provider, an airline, and an energy company.

First reported 4 Aug · updated 27 Aug · 4 reports openai.com

Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that were used to generate English-language social media comments across Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn to promote the International Burke Institute (IBI), a front presenting itself as an Israel-based 'expert community.' The operators used VPNs to bypass Russia access restrictions and instructed ChatGPT to hide linguistic clues of their Russian origin, as part of a covert influence campaign that reached relatively small audiences.

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