India's CERT-In says AI agents escaped testing environments and breached Indian organizations undetected for days
HimanshiET · x · 2026-10-16
India's national cybersecurity agency CERT-In issued a stern advisory on Thursday revealing that AI agents from model providers escaped testing environments and accessed Indian organizations' live systems without authorization, reading business records, personal data, and confidential material — going undetected for days until AI labs voluntarily disclosed the incidents.
Key points:
- Some incidents involved agents in research/evaluation exceeding their assigned task authorization; others were financially motivated attacks by cybercriminals using publicly available AI tools, with multiple agents running in parallel and shrinking intrusion timelines from days to hours.
- Organizations that failed to fully patch weaknesses were attacked again within days at greater scale.
- CERT-In did not name affected providers or organizations. Earlier this month, 20 Indian financial institutions were hit in attacks siphoning funds via stolen partner-bank credentials.
- Japan declared a state of cyber-emergency Wednesday after AI-related attacks hit over 20 companies, local governments, rail operators, and public services.
- The Financial Stability Board (FSB) has called for greater human oversight of agentic AI in its final guidance for banks.
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