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Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds
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Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval
The Hacker News
A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and a security researcher watched it happen because the operators left their control panels open on the internet. The agents tried more than 1,200 sites and reached websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm-equipment maker Deere, appliance company
Bleeping Computer
Autonomous AI agents using aggressive strategies attempted to hack U.S. and Canadian government websites to find school and divorce statistics. [...]
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'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2
Dark Reading
A new survey of senior AI execs shows that while organizations are rapidly deploying AI and autonomous systems, their process and controls are not keeping pace.
The Hacker News
Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale credential harvesting campaign within six hours. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said it has observed attackers with diverse motivations targeting proprietary AI
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Weaponized agents could turn digital intrusions into kinetic disasters, experts warn
The Register
Some say the world will end in fire, some say an agentic swarm
Bleeping Computer
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. [...]
The Hacker News
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously. After an initial Telegram instruction, the agent found internet-facing systems and selected public exploits. The researchers recovered no further operator input in the session. The operator, tracked through the aliases knaithe and KnYuan,