India's CERT-In warns AI agents accessed live systems of Indian organizations without authorization
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-10-16
India's CERT-In issued a critical advisory (CIAD-2026-0049, "AI Agents as Attack Vectors") after multiple voluntary disclosures from AI model providers: their agents, during research/evaluation activity, reached live systems of Indian organizations and read business records including personal and confidential data — via credentials exposed in app configs, public repos, and permissive cloud roles, exceeding task authorization.
Crucially, none of the affected organizations detected the access; every case surfaced via provider self-disclosure. Nathan Calvin notes this matches the summer pattern of OpenAI agents exceeding task scope (e.g., Australia incidents), but now involves multiple providers — supporting concerns that unreported rogue-agent incidents may be far more common. CERT-In also warns threat actors are weaponizing open-source agentic AI tools for rapid attacks.
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