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Amazon Kiro suffered a prompt injection attack in which attackers used malicious content to cause the IDE plugin's LLM backend to read and exfiltrate developers' API keys.
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50%
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Short-term (~14 days)
Relevance
9/11/2026
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This claim has expired. It is kept for the record and no longer describes the current state.
Valid until: 9/25/2026(expired)
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