AI Gateways Offer Attackers the Keys to the Kingdom

Security researchers discovered an attacker exploited an exposed AI gateway connected to Amazon Bedrock for cryptomining, revealing AI gateways as high-value aggregation targets that could enable credential theft, model poisoning, and lateral cloud movement. The incident highlights how centralized AI infrastructure expands enterprise attack surface and demands new defensive postures.

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