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Interview question · Detection Engineering & Incident Response

Attackers are using stolen cloud credentials to run LLMs on your account. How do you detect and respond to LLMjacking?

Crypto miners steal your compute. LLMjackers steal your model quota and resell it, and the first alert is often the bill.

mediumNewPreparation tags: Amazon, Microsoft, GoogleUpdated Nov 2026

Crypto miners steal your compute. LLMjackers steal your model quota and resell it, and the first alert is often the bill.

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Finance flags a sudden spike in AI service charges on an AWS account used only for a reporting application that has never used Bedrock.

  1. What do you check first?
  2. What if the calls come from the reporting application's long-lived access key?
  3. What if invocation logging is off, and leadership asks what was generated?
  4. What if the account never needed AI access in the first place?
  5. How do you stop the next one earlier?
  6. What would your LLMjacking runbook and prevention plan contain?

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