In The Rush To Adopt Hot New Tech, Security Is Often Forgotten. AI Is No Exception
The Register, Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks
Cisco's Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.
Ollama provides a framework that makes it possible to run large language models locally, on a desktop machine or server. Cisco decided to research it because, in the words of Senior Incident Response Architect Dr. Giannis Tziakouris, Ollama has 'gained popularity for its ease of use and local deployment capabilities.'