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So an AI agent just hacked Thailand's Finance Ministry

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This one flew under the radar but it's actually pretty wild. Someone used an open-source AI agent called Hermes to breach Thailand's Ministry of Finance. The agent was running in YOLO mode, which basically means it didn't ask for permission before running commands. It just went. Scanned for vulnera…

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  1. 2026-08-23 11:01 · r/AI_Agents
    So an AI agent just hacked Thailand's Finance Ministry

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