From exposed secrets to cloud compromise Follow-on actions Mitigating application credential abuse activity Defending against agentic AI attacks Microsoft detections Advanced hunting queries Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed threat actors using an agentic AI offensive framework to search public GitHub repositories for exposed secrets, including credentials, application credentials, and AI inference-related API keys across multiple applications and cloud services.
Threat actors use agentic AI tooling to find and abuse exposed secrets
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