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incidents/AIR-2026-0382

Threat Actor Used Hermes AI Agent for Post-Compromise Activity in Thailand

AI-enabled attack3 Confirmed exploitationAI-assisted intrusionAgent hijack

A threat actor used an autonomous AI agent for unattended privilege escalation and reconnaissance inside a government network. Researchers found evidence of intrusion without confirmed data exfiltration.

Details

type
AI-enabled attack
Attackers used AI as a meaningful part of a cyberattack against someone else.
categories
  • AI-assisted intrusionprimary
    Threat actors using AI tooling in reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement or operations.
  • Agent hijack
    An AI agent is tricked into unauthorized actions: tool misuse, data exfiltration through the agent, or acting against its principal.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
3 · Confirmed exploitation
Used against real targets; limited or unclear impact.
targets
Open-weight model, Enterprise deployment
products
Hermes AI agent
incident date
9 Jul 2026
first reported
9 Jul 2026
origin
AI Incident Database
Derived from the AI Incident Database (CC BY-SA 4.0).
classifier confidence
0.90 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
agentic_threat · post_compromise · reconnaissance
record
created 2026-10-18 06:33Z · updated 2026-10-18 06:59Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-07-09
    Threat Actor Reportedly Used Hermes AI Agent for Unattended Post-Compromise Activity in Thailand's Ministry of Finance Network
    AI Incident Database · incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1669

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