Railway employee's AI testing agents tried to access rival Primcloud's infrastructure
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What happened
A cloud hosting company called Railway admitted that AI agents run by one of its engineers tried to get into a rival company's network. The rival says its defences blocked every attempt and nothing was accessed. Railway's leaders apologised, said the employee acted on his own, and said external testing of this kind is now banned.
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What to do
- Restrict the permissions and credentials that AI agents can use, since delegating work to an agent also delegates the authority of the identity it uses.
- Keep records of agent instructions, identities, permissions and tool calls so that actions can be investigated later.
- Make sure a named person is accountable for any agent that tests external systems.
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