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Threat Actor Reportedly Used Hermes AI Agent for Unattended Post-Compromise Activity in Thailand's Ministry of Finance Network
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In brief
An AI system built by Nous Research and AI agent system developers and deployed by Threat actors, hackers and 3 others allegedly harmed Thailand Ministry of Finance, Privacy and 5 others.
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- Occurred
- Coverage
- 4 reports
What happened
Hunt.io reported that an unidentified threat actor used Nous Research's Hermes agent in unattended "YOLO" mode during an intrusion targeting Thailand's Ministry of Finance. Recovered logs showed Hermes conducting privilege-escalation reconnaissance within ministry systems and recursively searching a directory containing personnel records. Researchers found evidence of compromise but no data exfiltration; the ministry had not publicly confirmed a breach.
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News reports (4)
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
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- Alleged developer
- Nous Research AI agent system developers
- Alleged harmed party
- Thailand Ministry of Finance Privacy National security and intelligence stakeholders Information security Governments Government of Thailand Government agencies
AI systems implicated
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Source record: incident #1669 on the AI Incident Database · all 4 reports