19th January 2024 - Link Blog
AWS Fixes Data Exfiltration Attack Angle in Amazon Q for Business. An indirect prompt injection (where the AWS Q bot consumes malicious instructions) could result in Q outputting a markdown link to a malicious site that exfiltrated the previous chat history in a query string.
Amazon fixed it by preventing links from being output at all—apparently Microsoft 365 Chat uses the same mitigation.
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