“The rise of AI agents like Operator shows the dual nature of technology — tools built for productivity can be weaponized by determined attackers with minimal effort. This research highlights how AI systems can be manipulated through simple prompt engineering to bypass ethical guardrails and execute complex attack chains that gather intelligence, create malicious code, and deliver convincing social engineering lures.”
I remember back when there was a time where when this occurred in the USA, it was the telephone company’s responsibility to shut it down, for all the people getting all that spam from a particular source at once.
Then that was changed, sometime after Obama and before Biden.