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Threat Actor Reportedly Used LLM Agent to Exfiltrate Internal Database After Compromising marimo Python Notebook

AI Incident Database · article · May 26, 2026 · UTC

An unidentified attacker reportedly used an LLM agent during a May 10 intrusion after exploiting a vulnerable marimo Python notebook. The agent reportedly reused harvested AWS credentials to obtain an SSH key, then pivoted through a bastion host and exfiltrated the schema and contents of an internal PostgreSQL database. Sysdig attributed the post-compromise command stream to real-time agent execution rather than a prebuilt script.

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incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2026-05-10T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z

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