
AI Agents Breached AWS in 8 Minutes: The Sysdig Attack Chain Explained
On November 28, 2025, Sysdig’s Threat Research Team observed an AI-assisted intrusion that achieved administrative access to an AWS environment in under 10 minutes, compromised 19 AWS principals, abused Amazon Bedrock LLMs, and attempted GPU resource hijacking. The attack chain reveals what happens when threat actors weaponize LLMs for cloud reconnaissance, privilege escalation via Lambda code injection, and lateral movement at machine speed.








