AI incident ·
Threat Actor Reportedly Used LLM Agent to Exfiltrate Internal Database After Compromising marimo Python Notebook
In brief
An AI system built by Large language model developers and AI agent system developers and deployed by Threat actors, hackers and 3 others allegedly harmed Victims of automated cybercrime, Privacy and 3 others.
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- Not classified
- Occurred
- Coverage
- 3 reports
What happened
An unidentified attacker reportedly used an LLM agent during a May 10 intrusion after exploiting a vulnerable marimo Python notebook. The agent reportedly reused harvested AWS credentials to obtain an SSH key, then pivoted through a bastion host and exfiltrated the schema and contents of an internal PostgreSQL database. Sysdig attributed the post-compromise command stream to real-time agent execution rather than a prebuilt script.
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News reports (3)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Threat actors hackers Cybercriminals AI agent system deployers Agentic threat actors
- Alleged developer
- Large language model developers AI agent system developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Victims of automated cybercrime Privacy Information security Enterprise IT systems Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers
AI systems implicated
marimoLarge language modelsAmazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructureAmazon Web Services (AWS)AI agent systems
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Source record: incident #1670 on the AI Incident Database · all 3 reports