So we're just gonna keep doing cyber attacks and blaming it on AI now are we?
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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Until they face consequences
I run a couple of university library data repositories and LLMs are trying to 'hack' us 24x7. Yawn.
Cool, what's the worst attack you had to deal with?
They accessed publicly available information? Oh n0oo!!!1! 🙄
Not only, but you have to read the sources to find out:
Of these 899 requests, 13 of them carried attack payloads rather than ordinary queries, including by probing for vulnerabilities in the record-identifier parameter. The payloads included:
- Three SQL injection probes (an apostrophe, 1 OR 1=1, and 1,2)
- An encoded < for cross-site scripting
- 2147483648 to test a 32-bit integer boundary
- The string abc for non-numeric handling
- Five requests fuzzing the output format (.json, ?output=, ?raw=, ?url=)
- Two toggling a debug=1 flag
We do not believe that these probes were successful: each one came back as a normal HTTP 200 with an empty record page, with nothing to indicate the database acted on the input or that any extra data was returned.
We disclosed this attempted hack to the Canadian government on September 28, 2026. On September 29, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued a public statement in response.
And here's the CCCS statement
https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/news-events/statement-regarding-reported-activity-targeting-government-canada-websites
