Stolen AI Is the New Stolen Electricity: Criminals Are Running Their Operations on Someone Else's Bill
Criminals have found something more valuable to steal than your data: your computing power. Security researchers are warning of a surge in 'LLM-jacking' — hijacking companies' AI accounts and servers to run someone else's operations on the victim's dime. If your employer, your bank, or your favorite app runs AI in the cloud, this is now their problem, which quietly makes it yours.
Bottom Line
LLM-jacking marks the moment AI computing power became valuable enough to steal at scale. It's cryptojacking's bigger, more expensive sibling — and the twist is that victims don't just lose money, they lose control of what their own AI accounts are doing under their name. Signal, not noise: this fits a clear historical pattern where any newly expensive digital resource becomes a criminal commodity within a couple of years.