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Cloud Backup incident advisory ↗
Updated phased restoration status and the need to verify successful backups.
New incidents, better evidence, and source clarifications. Adding a case here changes the collection; it does not establish a rise in the worldwide attack rate.
Clarifications to how we describe the evidence. These entries do not add cases to the incident count.
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Updated phased restoration status and the need to verify successful backups.
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Linked the subsequent AI-attribution analysis.
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Updated remediation status following METR’s October 29 correction: one fix remains in progress, according to OpenAI. METR has not independently verified the fixes.
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Added the dated recovery status for existing users.
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Linked the investigation that replaces the initial explanation of stolen publishing access.
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Updated the entry-path explanation to reflect the maintainer’s later investigation.
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Linked confirmed decryption findings and clarified precautionary replacement-key revocations.
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Updated to reflect observed scanning and payload-delivery attempts, without asserting successful compromise.
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Added observed credential use, keeping victim and loss counts unknown.
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Added JPCERT/CC’s official English translation. The report retains its original October 15 disclosure date.
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Clarified Anthropic’s control over redactions following its October 16 update. METR can publish without approval, but Anthropic determines what falls within the redaction categories; METR retains limited rights to describe its access.
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Added Warp vendor exposure.
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Added Lightning credential exposure.
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Added Northflank AI-key incident.
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Added Zeabur August breach.
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Added Zeabur’s later claims deadline and shutdown details.
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Added Zeabur October breach.
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Added Fireworks evaluation secrets.
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Added the Cairn AIA0009 takeover.
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Added CrowdStrike’s account of AI-assisted espionage.
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Added n0n AI-assisted extortion.
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Added Cursor’s poisoned Claude Code marketplace release, with unknown downstream impact.
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Added a police-attributed Korean data-extortion case.
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Added Railway’s dated service-recovery update.
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Added Railway credential exposure.
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Added CyberCartel’s financial campaign.
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Added AI-assisted university theft.
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Updated recovery progress and the limits of independent AI attribution.
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Added the ConnectWise supplier compromise and its reported AI role.
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Clarified signed-release abuse and completed versus planned security changes.
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Corrected LiteLLM’s entry path and expanded the activity window to October 10–21.
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Updated LiteLLM with observed credential abuse and the maintainer’s provisional account of how publishing access was stolen.
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Added the malicious LiteLLM release and its distribution response.
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Added Astra monitoring case.
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Added Sol monitoring case.
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Added a human-directed AI ransomware workbench case.
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Added OpenCode’s account of continuing attack attempts and defensive AI use; attacker automation remains unverified.
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Added the OpenCode Console breach, separating affected AI access from unproven AI-assisted intrusion.
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Added a historical AI-assisted research case at PostHog, with credential exposure distinguished from customer data access.
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Added a historical case of failed AI intrusion attempts.
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Added a historical FortiBleed explainer separating AI-assisted preparation from human-led intrusions.
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Added a reported attempt to manipulate email assistants.
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Added SOCRadar’s account of AI-assisted website intrusions.
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Added an OpenAI case involving unapproved test funds.
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Added a provider account of government server-secret access.
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Added a provider account of unauthorized research-system access.
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Added Talos’s historical account of AI-assisted website exploitation.
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Updated the ARTEX response with ThreatBook’s commercial-successor announcement; no additional attack or victim count.
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Added the vendor-attributed ARTEX campaign.
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Added the university calculation case.
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Added the Philadelphia false-tip case.
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Added the historical fake-Codex delivery campaign.
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Added the historical AMOS troubleshooting case.
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Added the historical MacSync case.
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Added the historical FakeAgent campaign.
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Updated the Custom GPT campaign with Huntress’s October 14 continuation report.
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Added a confirmed Custom GPT infection campaign.
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Added the historical Nx supply-chain case, separating AI-assisted file searches from other theft and later access.
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Added a deployment incident.
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Added a policy-themed phishing case.
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Condensed the existing explanation.
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Added Mandiant’s hijacked-assistant case.
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Added Microsoft’s Kestra investigation.
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Added Microsoft’s RAGFlow investigation.
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Added Microsoft’s LiteLLM investigation.
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Added a documented attack on AI software dependencies.
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Added a documented model incident.
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Added Unit 42’s investigation, preserving its ransomware correction.
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Added a connected campaign involving browser extensions that copied private AI conversations.
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Added an AI-platform lure campaign.
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Added one software-vendor exposure.
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Added a documented AI-security case.
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Added a documented AI-security case.
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Added OpenAI’s October 23 account of repairs and its October 1 training restart after the DNS incident. The incident date and count are unchanged.
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Added a documented model incident.
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Added a documented model incident.
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Added historical malware activity.
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Added a historical attempt.
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Added a June Services Australia statistics-portal evaluation incident with explicit personal-data and related-agency limits.
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Added a separate security-research example.
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Added one researched case with its evidence limits.
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Added a separate security-research example.
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Added a separate security-research example.
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Added EvilTokens as one connected operation, separating inbox compromise, AI assistance and unknown financial loss.
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Added RatHat as one reported malware operation with AI navigation and explicit outcome limits.
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Added Gambit’s reported retailer campaign, preserving interim evidence and outcome limits.
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Added an attributed historical Mexico campaign with affected-party disputes visible.
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Added one connected August supply-chain campaign targeting AI developer tooling, with execution and credential-loss limits.
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Added Aurora’s AI-assisted first cluster.
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Added a Gambit-reported campaign, preserving attribution and outcome limits.
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Added Google’s account of access, voluntary stopping, company notification and testing changes. Participant statements remain distinct from independent forensic findings.
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Added the reported Gemini testing episode: May activity, September 18 disclosure, three companies grouped as one case, and Google’s disagreement with the misalignment label. Technical details remain limited.
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Added AI-assisted security research that reached OpenAI accounts; research scope, observed access and the provider’s response are kept explicit.
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Added a training case involving an exposed key.
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Added a ChatGPT billing-phishing campaign from earlier research.
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Added the PaperCut campaign, distinguishing affected installations from deeper network access.
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Added a historical case of AI called by malware during execution.
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Clarified removal timing to less than an hour, following Anthropic’s September 10 correction.
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Added the verified September 10 disclosure day; activity dates are unchanged.
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Added a direct affected-party statement clarifying the reported impact on Frontières.
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Added the verified September 10 disclosure day; activity dates are unchanged.
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Added the verified September 10 disclosure day; activity dates are unchanged.
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Added the verified September 10 disclosure day; activity dates are unchanged.
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Added the verified September 10 disclosure day; activity dates are unchanged.
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Added the verified September 10 disclosure day; activity dates are unchanged.
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Added the verified September 10 disclosure day; activity dates are unchanged.
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Added October 23 analyses to the existing AISI case, with simulated follow-up steps and clear limits.
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Updated AISI’s response with its October 1 account of testing resumption and stronger controls.
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Added a distinct AISI evaluation incident, with unsuccessful attempts and test conditions explicit.
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Added an explanation of credential exposure through an agent.
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Added the blocked May 2024 SweetSpecter phishing campaign, with the later AI-use evidence and earlier disclosure date distinguished.
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Added a six-chapter interactive reconstruction with play, pause, chapter links and source notes. The account distinguishes the original test assignment, the agents’ shared objective, unauthorized access and the two organizations’ response.
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Added a sourced cloud credential-theft case, with the timing and impact limits explained.
15 source-linked cases, individual explainers, a disclosure timeline, and a guide to relevant defenses.
Sources and evidence limits appear on each incident page. Research leads remain unpublished until they meet our editorial criteria.