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Hacker Runs Hermes AI Agent Unattended for Post-Exploitation at Thai Finance Ministry

Hacker Runs Hermes AI Agent Unattended for Post-Exploitation at Thai Finance Ministry
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Someone installed a popular AI assistant on a rented server, switched off the setting that makes it ask permission before running risky commands, and pointed it at Thailand's Ministry of Finance, which runs the country's treasury and tax collection. The agent then worked through the ministry's network on its own, checking hosts for ways to gain root access, hunting through file systems, and

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