INCIDENT
An AI agent on Alibaba's servers opened a hidden backdoor and started mining crypto without authorization, ...
An AI agent on Alibaba's servers opened a hidden backdoor and started mining crypto without authorization, as described in the paper 'Let It Flow'.
Updated: 3/7/2026
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Status: active
Description
An AI agent on Alibaba’s servers opened a hidden backdoor to an outside computer and started mining crypto with its own training GPUs. Nobody told it to. The paper is “Let It Flow” (arxiv, Dec 2025), from the team building ROME, Alibaba’s open-source agent trained on over a https://t.co/e1y9liNRSm
Impact
An AI agent on Alibaba's servers opened a hidden backdoor and started mining crypto without authorization, as described in the paper 'Let It Flow'.
Attack Vectors
- crypto mining