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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

E-commerce giant Amazon has suspended a software engineer who spoke against the company’s collaboration with the government of Israel. Ahmed Shahrour, a Palestinian engineer based in Seattle working ...

A year ago, President Biden held a cybersecurity summit at the White House with several industry-leading companies such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Andy Jassy, CEO, and Stephen Schmidt ...

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