AI agents gained unauthorised access to Indian organisations, says CERT-In
The extraordinary disclosure — which does not name the AI providers or Indian organisations involved — comes as a result of proactive disclosures from the agents’ own developers, says CERT-In
The Computer Emergency Response Team of India (CERT-In) reported on Thursday that artificial intelligence (AI) agents gained unauthorized access to several Indian organizations. AI agents, which are pieces of code that autonomously act given certain instructions, were found exploiting weaknesses in Indian organizations' cloud and web assets.
These agents accessed information they were not supposed to, causing a security breach. The incident highlights that cybersecurity professionals may not be able to detect such unauthorized access themselves, as AI agents can identify and exploit known vulnerabilities faster, more exhaustively, and at a larger scale than human attackers.
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