{"data":{"id":"c512f5d7-d41c-4958-b8d0-58fd8704761b","title":"AI Agent Drives Espionage Attack on Thai Ministry of Finance","summary":"Attackers used Hermes, an autonomous open source tool that can operate in unrestricted \"YOLO mode\" (a setting where it runs without safety checks), to conduct espionage against Thailand's Ministry of Finance. The attack demonstrates how AI agents designed to act independently can be misused for cyber attacks when their safety restrictions are disabled.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["security"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ai-agent-espionage-attack-thai-ministry-finance","publishedAt":"2026-07-28T01:00:00.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"high","attackType":[],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":[],"affectedVendorsRaw":["Hermes"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-07-28T01:00:00.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"moderate","impactType":["confidentiality","integrity"],"aiComponentTargeted":"agent","llmSpecific":false,"classifierConfidence":0.75,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}