Hands Off the Keyboard: How AI Agents Run Real Intrusions
New blog: Hands Off the Keyboard
Autonomous AI agents running intrusions from recon to root. The operator wrote a goal and read the results. This blog covers real AI attacks happening in the wild.
- 75 agent transcripts recovered from the attackers' own servers
- Claude Code harness on DeepSeek, plus pi and Codex workers on other models
- command execution on 23 hosts, most as root or SYSTEM
- a single SSRF to cloud metadata to a new root instance in 9 hours 44 minutes
- unauthenticated SQLi to OS commands on a domain joined SQL cluster
- the target's own Open WebUI rooted through CVE-2026-0766
- one target held for 5 days and 304 reasoning steps
- card data and wallet keys stolen, then every trace deleted on command
- 150,574 AI gateway resellers swept for upstream keys submitted by /u/BreachCache