{"slug": "token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges", "title": "Token thieves costing companies $100K+ per day in illicit LLM charges", "summary": "Companies are losing more than $100,000 per day to illicit LLM charges as attackers steal API tokens and resell or abuse access to large language models, according to a report in The Register. The piece frames token theft as a growing cost problem for organizations running AI workloads, with the losses measured in daily illicit charges rather than one-off breaches.", "body_md": "### [AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n- \nOPINION #### Microsoft's moolah mountain is more massive than ever. It just doesn't want the people who built itFlash the cash, flush the cache\n- \n#### Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI useA lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession\n- \n#### Backbone of a beast – charting Nvidia's rise to networking titanHow a $6.9B bet on Mellanox made Nvidia bigger than Cisco, and the world's most valuable company to boot\n- \n#### Domestic droid gone amok? Don't worry, you're coveredInsurance firms look to insulate domestic humanoid robot owners against the inevitable chaos they will bring\n- \n#### Google's search revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bumpJust wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly\n\n### [Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n- \nSecurity #### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacksPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n- \nSecurity #### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attackPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n- \nBlack Hat and DEF CON #### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructureVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n- \nSecurity #### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz AcronisWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n- \nMalware Month #### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sightOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n### [FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n- \n#### AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OSCombining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland\n- \n#### Ubuntu 27.04 may bring a preview of the long-awaited Core DesktopCanonical has a long way to catch up, but it knows who it's chasing\n- \n#### Systemd adds support for RustWhat's even better than Rust in the Linux kernel? Rust in systemd!\n- \n#### FreeBSD founder ports Omarchy to FreeBSD in ten days, ten releasesDaemonarchy is unaffiliated with the Linux original, built with AI help, and could complicate FreeBSD's debate over AI contributions\n- \n#### SparkyOS: Lightweight general-purpose Arch, on a pendriveInteresting new project from the minds behind SparkyLinux\n- \n#### Red Hat helps teach about tech writingBut learns tough lessons about AI in the process", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/02/token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges/5306967", "published_at": "2026-11-02 16:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-02 16:25:15.207933+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["The Register"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges.jsonld"}}