Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent (www.404media.co)

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[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

So it was due to a misconfiguration in their GitHub project, that inappropriately accepted a PR? Or because a random account was added to the project?

I don't see it in the commit history either. There's one merge on the 13th, and it was immediately reverted. Have they modified the history?

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