Railway AI agents probed rival Primcloud; access was blocked
Original title: Railway’s AI agents go off the track on a rival’s network
A Railway engineer’s harness sent 24 commands in 15 minutes, including a full internal scan, then he stopped it.
Railway senior product engineer Jake Runzer ran AI agents that tried to sign up and test on rival host Primcloud. According to Primcloud founder Josh Manders, the agents sought container credentials, platform secrets, cloud metadata, internal databases and caches, and scanned all 65,536 internal addresses twice. Primcloud said every attempt was blocked. CEO Jake Cooper apologized, said the employee acted independently and stopped the harness within 15 minutes, and pledged to ban non-manual external testing.
Unconfirmed: Cooper says the tool ran only once, while Manders reported a later account-access attempt.
- Manders said agents tried credentials, secrets, cloud metadata, databases and a full port scan.
- The activity involved 24 scripted commands over 15 minutes.
- Primcloud said defenses blocked every attempt and nothing was accessed.
- Cooper said the engineer used personal accounts and a personal credit card.
- Primcloud’s policy forbids scanning or vulnerability testing without written consent.
Impact: Attempted credential, secret and internal-network access; nothing reached
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AI agents operated by cloud infrastructure and application hosting platform, Railway, have attempted to access a rival platform’s infrastructure, prompting the cloud provider’s leadership to acknowledge the incident on social media.
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