Someone installed a popular AI assistant on a rented server,
switched off the setting that makes it ask permission before
running risky commands, and pointed it at Thailand's Ministry of
Finance, which runs the country's treasury and tax collection. The
agent then worked through the ministry's network on its own,
checking hosts for ways to gain root access, hunting through file
systems, and
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