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title: "An LLM agent just cracked a public network and drained a whole cloud database in under two minutes — the first documented real-world cyberattack run by an autonomous AI"
date: 2026-05-30
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description: "Sometime in early 2026, an autonomous AI agent connected to a public-facing WebSocket endpoint, received a full interactive shell without entering a single credential, and used that access to extract ..."
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# An LLM agent just cracked a public network and drained a whole cloud database in under two minutes — the first documented real-world cyberattack run by an autonomous AI

Sometime in early 2026, an autonomous AI agent connected to a public-facing WebSocket endpoint, received a full interactive shell without entering a single credential, and used that access to extract ...

*Published: 2026-05-30*