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#7 Dark Reading general July 28, 2026 at 01:00 UTC

AI Agent Drives Espionage Attack on Thai Ministry of Finance

By Alexander Culafi

AI Summary

Attackers deployed Hermes, an open-source autonomous AI agent running in unrestricted 'YOLO mode,' to conduct a cyber-espionage campaign against Thailand's Ministry of Finance. This represents one of the first documented cases of an AI agent being weaponized autonomously for nation-state-level espionage, signaling a new threat vector for government targets.

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