
Datadog reports in-the-wild ARTEX agentic attacks on AWS environments
Operators used stolen IAM keys and public Cognito pools to hunt financial data, secrets, and account details.
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Operators used stolen IAM keys and public Cognito pools to hunt financial data, secrets, and account details.
Combined inference reached 90% top-1 accuracy across 15 models and 92% across four harnesses.

TrendAI reconstructed three infrastructures; the deepest access used exposed admin panels and stolen or default credentials.

Cisco Talos says AI agent swarms already attack infrastructure and defenders must rehearse quieter campaigns.

SOCRadar documented JADEPUFFER, an AI agent that autonomously executed a ransomware campaign from Langflow exploit through encryption and extortion.

Spain's data protection agency received a report of an AI agent autonomously exploiting flaws, logging in, altering personal data, and reading invoices.

Anthropic reports state-linked and criminal actors used Claude AI agents to automate espionage, extortion, and exploit development, stealing 300,000+ identity records and drone IP.
Report attributes the May 2026 RubyGems repository attack—hundreds of packages, signups paused—to an OpenAI agent swarm.

Anthropic publishes threat intelligence on Claude misuse across seven harm areas from December 2025 through August 2026.
Unit 42 says a human attacker used AI agents to execute a full ransomware intrusion in under 10 hours, leaving the victim an 80-page security audit.
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