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#6 The Hacker News general May 29, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Attackers Use LLM Agent for Post-Exploitation After Marimo CVE-2026-39987 Exploit

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

An unknown threat actor exploited CVE-2026-39987 in a publicly accessible Marimo notebook to gain initial access, then deployed an LLM agent to autonomously conduct post-exploitation actions, including extracting two cloud credentials. This marks a documented real-world case of AI-assisted post-compromise automation, signaling an escalation in attacker operational sophistication.

Relevance score: 79.0/100

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