Op Bizarre Bazaar: New LLMjacking Campaign Targets Unprotected Models

Pillar Security Research has discovered Operation Bizarre Bazaar, a massive cyberattack campaign led by a hacker known as Hecker. Between December 2025 and January 2026, over 35,000 sessions were recorded targeting AI systems to steal compute power and resell access via silver.inc.

Researchers have identified a new kind of theft where hackers break into a company’s AI and sell its power to others. According to an investigation by Pillar Security Research, a major campaign named Operation Bizarre Bazaar was active between December 2025 and January 2026.

During this two-month window, around 35,000 attack sessions were recorded, suggesting that hackers were hunting for exposed AI systems roughly 972 times every single day.

The team at Pillar Security Research traced the operation back to an individual using the alias Hecker, also known as Sakuya or LiveGamer101. It is worth noting that this is the first time anyone has ...