Buckle up for a wild ride into the future of cyber warfare! 🎙️ In this episode, we are dissecting a mind-blowing case where an AI agent was caught doing the "dirty work" for a hacker—completely unattended. We are talking about the Hermes AI assistant being unleashed on Thailand's Ministry of Finance with the literal YOLO flag turned on! 🤖💥
Find out how this open-source tool, usually meant for mundane tasks like managing emails, was transformed into a relentless post-exploitation machine. We cover how the AI autonomously scanned for cutting-edge 2026 kernel vulnerabilities like Dirty Frag and DirtyClone, and how it rifled through over a decade of sensitive personnel records dating back to 2012. 📂🔓
We also dive into the investigators' lucky break—how the operator’s own mistake of leaving a web server directory open led researchers straight to the evidence. From default Hadoop password vulnerabilities that accept anything to the mysterious Hades malware and the Hong Kong-based staging server, this story has everything a tech-thriller needs. Is AI automation the new front line of hacking? Let’s find out! 🛡️🇹🇭
Source Attribution: The Hacker News, Hunt.io, and Bob Diachenko.
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