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 pleaded guilty this week to hacking and stealing over $12.3 million from two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022. The two affected companies are Nirvana ...

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.

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer last week inadvertently made public almost a gigabyte’s worth of sensitive data, including their own personal documents as well as passwords and cryptographic ...

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 Web Services has unveiled new autonomous AI “frontier agents” that can code, secure and operate software for days ...

Shakeeb Ahmed — an ex-Amazon security engineer who admitted to stealing over $12.3M from two cryptocurrency exchanges using exploits — has been sentenced to three years in prison, will forfeit the ...

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 ...

What is a security engineer? A security engineer is a cybersecurity professional who helps develop and implement strategies and systems to protect their organization’s infrastructure from cyberattacks ...