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Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

lowthehackernewsPublished 2026-09-01

METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered "two notable security incidents" where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems.

No sensitive information is believed to

MITRE ATT&CK techniques

Original source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/attackers-steal-metr-api-key-and.html