AI agent incident
Google's Threat Intelligence Group reported a financially motivated group using an autonomous multi-agent framework to collect thousands of credentials in under six hours.
Six hours sits inside most detection and response windows rather than outside them. Non-human identity monitoring either runs at that pace or it is only good for writing the postmortem.
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“Google GTIG saw an autonomous agent framework harvest thousands of credentials in six hours.” The Permission Layer AI Agent Incident Database, https://thepermissionlayer.com/incidents/gtig-autonomous-credential-harvest/. Database updated October 22, 2026.
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