METR AI Agent Bug Leaks API Keys Worth $600K

METR disclosed that an AI agent on a personal EC2 instance silently lost Google authentication due to a dashboard bug, exposing API credentials worth $600,000. Attackers accessed the keys via certificate transitivity, highlighting security risks in agent infrastructure.

2026-09-02 ~ 2026-09-02 · 2 related posts

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