Malicious pull request targets Amazon's Q Developer coding agent

On July 13, 2025, a GitHub user submitted a pull request to Amazon's aws-toolkit-vscode repository that would have made the Q Developer coding agent run malicious commands. The attack was blocked before merging.
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