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- Confidence
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- Observed
- Jan 18, 2024 11:00 UTC
- Retrieved
- Oct 08, 2026 03:44 UTC
A few weeks ago Amazon released the Preview of Amazon Q for Business, and after looking at it I found a data exfiltration angle via rendering markdown/hyperlinks and reported it to Amazon. Amazon reacted quickly and mitigated the problem. This post shares further details and how it was fixed. The Problem An Indirect Prompt Injection attack can cause the LLM to return markdown tags. This allows an
AWS Fixes Data Exfiltration Attack Angle in Amazon Q for Business9b07bc314216b154346087f250a5a748b53b7c5deaede3d737d8e97ec3f36301Network indicators are visibly defanged. This page does not make them clickable or send them to another service.
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