Suspicious Amazon Q Developer CLI Invocation With Trust All Tools Flag

ATT&CK techniques

Initial Access → Execution

Recon
Resource Dev
Initial Access
- T1195.002Compromise Software Supply Chain
Execution
- T1059Command and Scripting Interpreter
Persistence
Priv Esc
Defense Evasion
Cred Access
Discovery
Lateral Movement
Collection
C2
Exfiltration
Impact

What it detects

This rule detects the Amazon Q developer CLI being run non-interactively with the trust-all-tools flag which a supply chain injected prompt abused to attempt destructive filesystem wiping and deletion of cloud resources such as S3 buckets. Running an AI agent CLI with all tool approvals bypassed and no human interaction is a high-risk pattern associated with automated destructive actions.

Reporting behind it

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Suspicious Amazon Q Developer CLI Invocation With Trust All Tools Flag

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