McKinsey, your friendly consulting firm, has deployed their own ChatBot “Lilly”. Hackers (in this case, and luckily for McKinsey, white-hat hackers – the good and friendly kind, who disclose their findings to the company) have, by using a set of AI agents, managed to exploit a vulnerability in Lilly and gain access to “46.5 million chat messages about strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and client engagements, all in plaintext, along with 728,000 files containing confidential client data, 57,000 user accounts, and 95 system prompts controlling the AI’s behavior.” You know, no big deal…
[…] the entire process was “fully autonomous from researching the target, analyzing, attacking, and reporting.”
As useful as agents are for businesses, they are equally useful for hackers. Prepare yourself for an onslaught of AI-powered cyber attacks.
