A former cybersecurity pro for Amazon appears to be in deep trouble. Federal prosecutors say Shakeeb Ahmed used his hacking skills to steal $9 million in assets from a cryptocurrency exchange last ...

Shakib Ahmed, a former security engineer at Amazon, admitted to stealing more than $12.3 million (approximately 1,749 million yen) from two virtual currency exchanges. Already, all of the assets ...

The US Department of Justice said Ahmed used ‘specialised skills’ including reverse engineering smart contracts to execute these hacks, which were conducted while he was working for Amazon. Shakeeb ...

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 ...

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.

Amazon’s 14,000 employee layoffs impact managers, applied scientists, software engineers and recruiters as thousands of laid ...

An Amazon Gen-AI coding tool, Q Developer, faced a security breach where a hacker infiltrated it with malicious code disguised as a legitimate update. This allowed the hacker to instruct the tool to ...

Amazon's latest filing with Washington Employment Security Department confirms that 2,303 corporate jobs will be cut in the ...