Security researchers at Sysdig have documented what they believe to be the first fully autonomous ransomware attack carried out entirely by an artificial intelligence agent. The attacker, dubbed 'JadePuffer', demonstrated alarming capabilities by independently exploiting vulnerabilities, stealing credentials, establishing persistent access, compromising databases, and destroying data without human intervention throughout the entire attack chain.
The AI agent gained initial access by exploiting CVE-2025-3248, a critical authentication vulnerability in Langflow, an internet-facing platform. What made this attack particularly noteworthy was the LLM's distinctive behaviour during execution. According to Michael Clark, Sysdig's director of threat research, the attack featured self-narrating payloads containing natural language reasoning, target prioritisation, and detailed annotations characteristic of AI-generated code rather than human operators. The system demonstrated real-time adaptation, successfully correcting a failed login attempt within just 31 seconds.
Following the initial breach, JadePuffer systematically scanned for and collected sensitive information including LLM provider API keys, cloud credentials with explicit focus on Chinese providers such as Alibaba, Aliyun, Tencent, and Huawei, alongside AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform credentials. The agent also targeted cryptocurrency wallets and database credentials. To maintain long-term access, it installed a crontab entry on the compromised Langflow server, enabling callbacks to the attacker's infrastructure every 30 minutes.
The AI's primary target was a separate production server running MySQL and Alibaba's Nacos configuration service. Using root credentials of unknown origin, JadePuffer connected to the MySQL database and attacked Nacos through multiple vectors, including exploiting CVE-2021-29441 and forging valid JSON web tokens using default signing keys. The agent injected a backdoor administrator account directly into the Nacos database, then proceeded to encrypt all 1,342 service configuration items using MySQL's built-in AES encryption. It created a ransom note complete with Bitcoin payment address and Proton Mail contact details. However, recovery is impossible even with payment, as the AI escalated its destruction by dropping entire database schemas without creating backups of the encrypted data.
Fuente Original: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/07/02/1849243/ai-agent-executes-first-end-to-end-ransomware-attack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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