{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0158",
 "incident_id": "2026-07-sygnia-ai-assisted-aws-extortion",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-07-08",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "AI-assisted intrusion moved through an AWS environment across applications, CI/CD and data stores in ~72 hours",
 "class": "in_the_wild",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "internet_facing_application_compromise",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "automated_recon",
  "credential_harvesting",
  "cloud_lateral_movement"
 ],
 "target_product": "victim AWS environment",
 "target_vendor": "undisclosed victim organisation",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_exfiltration",
  "extortion",
  "credential_theft"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one organisation's applications, cloud infrastructure, source control, CI/CD and runtime services",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "ai_assisted_intrusion",
   "speed_of_operation",
   "no_zero_day",
   "cloud_pivot"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "secrets management, identity governance and deployment controls (had gaps)",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": null,
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.sygnia.co/blog/inside-an-ai-assisted-cloud-attack/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1586"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "Sygnia investigated a cloud intrusion in which a threat actor gained unauthorized access to an AWS-based environment and expanded across applications, cloud, source-control, CI/CD, and runtime services. The incident involved no novel malware and no zero-day exploit.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "AI Incident Database incident 1586. Sygnia inferred AI assistance from artifacts and operational tempo and did not identify a specific model; treat the agentic attribution as an assessment rather than a confirmed fact.",
 "risk_category": "security_fraud",
 "risk_secondary": [
  "privacy"
 ],
 "risk_subcategory": "Credential & Secret Theft",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [
  "Unauthorized Access & Account Takeover",
  "Over-permissioned execution & lateral movement",
  "Ransomware & Extortion"
 ],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": true,
 "agency_reason": "AI-driven recon and lateral movement across the AWS environment",
 "vector_family": "other",
 "vector_detail": "internet_facing_application_compromise",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   1586
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI03",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "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": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI03 (eai_category=credential_theft)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}