AWS intruder pulled off AI-assisted cloud break-in in 8 mins - theregister.com

An attacker achieved administrative privileges in an AWS cloud environment within minutes by exploiting misconfigured public S3 buckets containing valid credentials, followed by privilege escalation through Lambda function code injection. The operation was significantly accelerated by AI, which also enabled "LLMjacking" to abuse cloud-hosted LLM models and exfiltrate sensitive data.