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Hunt.io · July 23, 2026

Thailand's Ministry of Finance Targeted With Hermes AI Agent Running Unattended

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Why it matters

Hunt.io recovered 585 files and Hermes logs from an exposed staging server used against Thailand's Ministry of Finance. The evidence shows an operator who already had target knowledge and access running Hermes in unattended “YOLO” mode for repetitive post-exploitation enumeration, while also staging Hadoop exploitation scripts and a custom Hades implant; it does not show the agent finding the initial entry point or novel vulnerabilities.

My takeaway: This is a concrete case of autonomy amplifying established intrusion tradecraft, not autonomous compromise from scratch. Keep command approvals and tool scopes outside the agent's control, log full trajectories, and hunt both the underlying endpoint and network actions and exposed Hermes result directories or Web UI fingerprints.
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