One of the e-commerce giant's high-level security pros is accused of using his hacking talents for evil. Reading time 2 minutes A former cybersecurity pro for Amazon appears to be in deep trouble.

Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12 million. Ahmed was also sentenced to ...

A Seattle jury has found Paige Thompson, a former Amazon software engineer accused of stealing data from Capital One in 2019, guilty of wire fraud and five counts of unauthorized access to a protected ...

Prosecutors, who previously described the arrest as the first related to an attack on a smart contract, asked U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero to impose a sentence of four years in prison. U.S.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero of the Southern District of New York on Friday sentenced former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison in connection with a cryptocurrency ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Nate Bek on Jul 21, 2022 at 6:32 am ...

Amazon CISO CJ Moses explains how Amazon’s honeypot system Madpot and Amazon Web Services’ active defense tool Sonaris are stopping trillions of cyberattacks on Amazon EC2 and S3 storage buckets.

Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms. ATA was born ...

Amazon appeared to have significantly heightened security for its New York Amazon Web Services Summit on Wednesday, two weeks after a number of activists disrupted the Washington, DC, AWS Summit in ...

Hackers are targeting Amazon Prime accounts. Update, Jan. 29, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 28, has now been updated with further information about the Amazon Prime hacks and other ...

Set up your Amazon passkey now. The U.S. Treasury has warned consumers of a surge in phishing attacks that “frequently impersonate trusted brands,” and one threat intelligence report has confirmed ...