Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds

Threat actors built an AI agent designed to hijack exposed AI models to run autonomous attacks, with instructions allowing it to carry out up to 100,000 steps without human approval. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team uncovered the agent's full instruction set over the summer, trapping it in an AI honeypot, and thus giving the researchers a comprehensive view into how the operators built the attack tool and what it could do. The captured instructions showed a single attack agent designed to scan th