Agentic Resource Exhaustion: The "Infinite Loop" Attack of the AI Era
IT InstaTunnel Team Published by our engineering team Agentic Resource Exhaustion: The “Infinite Loop” Attack of the AI Era 🔄💥 Executive Summary The “Billion Laughs” attack has returned—but this time, it’s not crashing XML parsers; it’s bankrupting AI budgets. In the early days of the web, a simple XML vulnerability could crash a server by forcing it to expand a recursive entity exponentially. Today, as we move from static LLMs to autonomous AI Agents, a far more expensive vulnerability has emerged: Agentic Resource Exhaustion . This is the “Denial of Wallet” attack for the agentic age. By exploiting the autonomy of AI agents, attackers can trigger recursive agent loops, forcing systems into endless cycles of reasoning, tool use, and API calls. In a pay-per-token world, this doesn’t just slow down your application—it can rack up thousands of dollars in compute costs in minutes. 🌐 The State of Agentic AI in 2025-2026 The “Year of the Agent” 2025 marked a decis...