The tireless intern now works for the other side: an autonomous AI is already automating real attacks
In an intrusion at Thailand's Ministry of Finance, the attacker left an open-source AI agent running unattended to automate the boring part of the attack: enumerate, escalate privileges, find the next step. It broke nothing new —it got in through default credentials and unpatched 2021 CVEs— but it did the dirty work faster and without rest. What actually changes is speed, and the only answer to speed is 24/7 detection and response.