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

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.

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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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Creators and Guests

Ejaaz Ahamadeen
Host
Ejaaz Ahamadeen
Investor & Host of the Limitless AI Show. Former Product at Coinbase and ConsenSys
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