{
 "public_id": "AIR-2025-0170",
 "incident_id": "2025-11-gtig-quietvault",
 "date_disclosed": "2025-11-05",
 "date_occurred": "2025",
 "title": "QUIETVAULT: credential stealer that invokes on-host AI CLI tools to hunt for additional secrets",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "coding_agent",
 "initial_vector": "javascript_stealer_on_developer_host",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "local_ai_cli_invocation",
  "filesystem_search",
  "secret_discovery"
 ],
 "target_product": "Locally installed AI CLI tools (e.g. Claude Code, Gemini CLI)",
 "target_vendor": "various",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "credential_theft",
  "data_exfiltration"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "Developers with GitHub and NPM tokens; stolen data pushed to attacker-created public GitHub repositories",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI05",
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "agent_as_weapon",
   "credential_theft",
   "living_off_ai_tools"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": null,
 "defense_bypassed": null,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/threat-actor-usage-of-ai-tools"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "QUIETVAULT leverages an AI prompt and on-host installed AI CLI tools to search for other potential secrets on the infected system and exfiltrate these files to GitHub as well.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Same 'living off the AI tools already installed' pattern as the Nx s1ngularity payload. GTIG marks it as observed in operations, so impact_realized is true, but no victim count is given.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy",
  "safety_harm"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Credential & Secret Theft",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the stealer invokes the on-host AI CLIs, which do the secret hunting",
 "vector_family": "other",
 "vector_detail": "javascript_stealer_on_developer_host",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI05",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "multiple",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "vendor_disclosure",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "credential_theft",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "data_exfiltration_channels"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Credential & Secret Theft",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI05"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI05 | added ASI03 (eai_category=credential_theft)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}