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Black October: AI Agents in Our Bank Accounts and the PHP Hack

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Show Notes

In the last 48 hours, AI attacks have gone from one-off incidents to something much bigger. Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized AI agents inside customer accounts, and they can't tell them apart from humans. At the same time, two critical bugs in PHP, the language behind an estimated 70% of websites, leaked before the patch was out, and the NSA, the FBI and Japan's prime minister told organizations to take their systems offline. Ejaaz breaks down what's happening, how the PHP flaw was found by AI and kept secret for months, the hacking group that used Claude and Grok agents against more than 400 Latin American financial targets, and why open-source models are the ones fighting back.

Then the bigger questions: who is behind it, why AI agents are so hard to trace, and the steps you can take today to protect yourself.

== Timestamps 00:00 All Hell Breaks Loose 01:58 The Worst 48 Hours in Cybersecurity 04:01 A Global Attack With No Source 04:59 AI Agents Inside U.S. Bank Accounts 06:20 Banks Can't Tell Humans From Agents 08:10 The Warning From the AI Labs 09:22 PHP2Shell: 70% of Websites 10:06 How AI Found the Bug 11:47 The Leak 12:27 Millions of Attacks 13:27 Open Models Fight Back 14:24 Claude and Grok Agents Hit the Banks 15:33 Governments Pull the Plug 16:45 How to Protect Yourself 18:12 Final Thoughts 18:44 Why This Is a Good Thing 19:47 AI Fighting AI 21:37 Why Can't We Trace AI Agents?

#ai #cybersecurity #aiagents #banks #php

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