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Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai Finance Ministry

BleepingComputer · · International · Data Breaches

A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended "YOLO" mode to automate post-exploitation activity during an alleged breach of Thailand's Ministry of Finance. [...]

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