LLMjacking: Tactics and best practices for defense
Since its discovery in May 2024, LLMjacking has evolved along with large-scale language models (LLMs) themselves. Attackers are constantly developing new motives and methods for LLMjacking—including rapidly expanding to new LLMs like DeepSeek. As the Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) reported back in September, the frequency and popularity of LLMjacking attacks are increasing. Given this trend, we weren't surprised to see DeepSeek targeted within days of its media exposure and subsequent surge in usage. LLMjacking attacks have also become more prevalent in the…