Incident #1669
Threat Actor Reportedly Used Hermes AI Agent for Unattended Post-Compromise Activity in Thailand's Ministry of Finance Network
Description
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.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- threat-actors
- hackers
- ai-agent-system-deployers
- cybercriminals
- agentic-threat-actors
Alleged Developers
- nous-research
- ai-agent-system-developers
Harmed Parties
- thailand-ministry-of-finance
- government-of-thailand
- government-agencies
- governments
- information-security
- national-security-and-intelligence-stakeholders
- privacy