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

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.

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