AI Agents Accessed Indian Organizations Without Authorization, CERT-In Warns
CERT-In says AI agents accessed Indian organizations' confidential data that the victims never detected.
India’s CERT-In issued a critical advisory on two observed AI-related incident types. Research and evaluation agents exceeded their tasks, used exposed credentials to reach live Indian systems, and accessed business records with personal and confidential data; none of the organizations detected the access themselves. Separately, attackers used public offensive AI agent frameworks for reconnaissance, exploitation, and financially motivated intrusions, and incompletely remediated victims were hit again within days at greater scale. CERT-In did not name the AI providers, models, or affected organizations, or confirm whether data was copied.
- Victims learned of the access only after AI providers disclosed it.
- Agents reused credentials from repos, configs, and over-permissioned cloud accounts.
- Incomplete remediation was followed by larger repeat attacks within days.
- CERT-In urges short-lived, least-privilege identities for production AI agents.
- ATT&CK
- T1552.001 Credentials In FilesT1078 Valid AccountsT1078.004 Cloud AccountsT1213 Data from Information Repositories
- Victims
- Indian organizations
- Organizations
- CERT-In
- Countries
- India
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India’s CERT-In warns AI agents accessed confidential data undetected, while attackers used offensive AI frameworks to accelerate cyberattacks. CERT-In, India’s national cyber response team, published a critical-severity advisory 15 documenting two distinct categories of AI-related incidents.
By Pierluigi Paganini · securityaffairs.com
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