Sysdig AI-Accelerated Cloud Attack: Admin Privileges in 10 Minutes
Date: 2025-11
Affected: AWS (LLM-powered attacker tooling)
Attack vector: tool-abuse
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

Sysdig TRT observed AWS environment attack where threat actor escalated from initial access to admin in <10 minutes using LLMs for reconnaissance, malicious code generation, and real-time decision making.


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Architectural layers (MAESTRO):