{"id":9641,"date":"2026-09-01T11:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/attackers-steal-metr-api-key-and-consume-ai-credits-worth-about-600000\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:15:19","slug":"attackers-steal-metr-api-key-and-consume-ai-credits-worth-about-600000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/attackers-steal-metr-api-key-and-consume-ai-credits-worth-about-600000\/","title":{"rendered":"Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMETR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced &#8220;Meter&#8221;), 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 &#8220;two notable security incidents&#8221; where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems.<\/p>\n<p>No sensitive information is believed to\u00a0METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced &#8220;Meter&#8221;), 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 &#8220;two notable security incidents&#8221; where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems.<\/p>\n<p>No sensitive information is believed to\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMETR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced &#8220;Meter&#8221;), 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 &#8220;two notable security incidents&#8221; where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems. No sensitive information is believed to\u00a0METR&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/attackers-steal-metr-api-key-and-consume-ai-credits-worth-about-600000\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}