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AWS Bedrock AgentCore Flaw Allowed Attackers to Hijack AI Agents Using a Single Prompt

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What happened

A newly disclosed attack chain in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that could turn a single malicious prompt into credential theft and compromise of other AI agents (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) within the same AWS account and region. Dubbed AgentCorruption, the research linked metadata access to an overprivileged execution role, enabling lateral movement, conversation exposure, memory poisoning, and theft of credentials […] The post AWS Bedrock AgentCore Flaw Allowed Attackers to Hijack AI Agents Using a Single Prompt appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform . Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing company based in Seattle, founded in 2006.

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