Hackers stole AI credentials to get $740,000 in free compute; Railway picked up the bill

As AI model training and distillation increase, AI tokens are becoming a piping hot currency for threat actors. Cloud hosting provider Railway found out the hard way; it has confirmed a near 26-hour battle against attackers targeting AI provider credentials to sell to AI ‘transfer stations’ for use in model distillation. The crooks generated about $740,000 in fraudulent AI usage charges using the stolen credentials a…

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