LLMjacking: From Emerging Threat to Black Market Reality

LLMjacking has rapidly evolved from isolated abuse into a commercialized cybercrime ecosystem that monetizes unauthorized access to cloud-hosted LLM resources; researchers report campaigns (Operation Bizarre Bazaar) that use credential theft, automated scanning (Shodan/Censys), reverse proxies, and MCP server compromise to validate and resell LLM compute and API access on underground marketplaces, posing financial, operational, and lateral-movement risks to organizations.