Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges

Victim organizations are losing millions of dollars in token charges as criminals hijack their corporate LLM access to steal expensive computing resources and AI services.These fraudulent charges from resource consumption can exceed $100,000 a day, according to a Monday report by Google's Mandiant incident responders, who saw cumulative charges at some organizations hit $1 million before the victim companies revoked intruders' access."Whenever possible, threat actors want to use this technology to gain a scale advantage over defenders. They achieve that with agentic tools and by stealing tokens from unwitting third parties,” John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, told The Register. “Locking down these...

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