LLMjacking

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new attack method that they have dubbed "LLMjacking," which targets cloud-hosted large language model services using stolen cloud credentials, after which attackers would attempt to sell the illegal access paths to these models to other threat actors, The Hacker News reports.

New attack method called LLMjacking reported SC Staff 2024

LLMjacking is a term coined by the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) to describe an attacker using stolen credentials to gain access to a victim's large language model (LLM).

What is LLMjacking? | Sysdig 2026