India latest country to report rogue AI agent activity entering via exposed credentials
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-10-17
TechCrunch reports India is the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity. The agents got in not via exploits but through misconfigurations:
- Credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations
- Secrets leaked in public code repositories
- Overly permissive cloud roles
Config hygiene — credential management and least privilege — is now a real, cross-border AI agent security issue.
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