Stolen AI credentials are sold in underground markets and compromised servers shift their costs to victims: three signals every business owner should watch.
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The new corporate nightmare: criminals using AI at bargain prices
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It is 2:37 a.m. In an office, the screens are still on. The servers keep working nonstop, and a company keeps paying for computing resources it believes are under control.
On the other side of the world, someone could be using that same infrastructure to fund their own attacks.
The unsettling part is that this scenario is already documented.
Google Threat Intelligence and Anthropic have identified underground markets where stolen credentials to access advanced artificial intelligence models are sold. Some sellers even offer to replace them if they get blocked.
Crime no longer needs to build its own artificial intelligence. It can steal access to yours.
And the problem does not end there. When attackers compromise corporate servers, they can also use their processing power and shift the costs to the victim companies.
For any business owner, these are three signals worth watching:
- Unexpected API consumption.
- New keys or unknown access.
- Unexplained increases in cloud service bills.
The response begins by restricting permissions, rotating compromised credentials and enabling alerts for consumption and suspicious activity.
As a lawyer and business consultant, I see an issue here that goes beyond technology: AI security is also a matter of corporate governance, accountability and business continuity.
The question is no longer how much it costs to bring artificial intelligence into a company, but how much it could cost if someone else uses it without authorization.
☕ Is your company ready to detect that its own AI is working for a criminal?
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