Autonomous AI Agent Discovers SQL Injection Vulnerability in McKinsey's Lilli AI Platform
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Summary
Security researchers used an autonomous AI agent to test McKinsey's internal AI platform Lilli for vulnerabilities. Without credentials or insider knowledge, the agent discovered a SQL injection vulnerability that allowed access to sensitive internal data, including employee information, project details, and proprietary research. The article details how the autonomous agent bypassed security measures and extracted data that revealed concerning security gaps in McKinsey's AI infrastructure.
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So we decided to point our autonomous offensive agent at it. No credentials. No insider knowledge. And no human-in-the-loop.
An autonomous AI agent found a SQL injection in McKinsey's Lilli AI platform. What it extracted was worse than we expected.
Lilli is a purpose-built system: chat, document analysis, RAG over decades of proprietary research, AI-powered search across 100,000+ internal documents.
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