We almost made it through Black October. Then $6.36 billion was stolen from Binance, with most of the theft unfolding in about 20 minutes. From this wave of cyberattacks to AI swarms, secret communication channels, and “cloaked daemons,” we explore a disturbing question: what happens when protecting the internet requires AI systems we can’t afford to turn off?
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SOURCES
Binance theft: TRM Labs investigation
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-steals-usd-6-36-billion-from-binance-in-the-largest-hack-in-history
Binance’s official incident update
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/d3306d9dca5243548c813b605e1d1751
Military refrigeration failures and suspected cyberattack
Pentagon treating military base freezer malfunctions as suspected cyberattack, officials say
GMO’s customer security update
https://internet.gmo/en/news/article/263/
Polymarket theft: technical investigation
https://report-uri.ghost.io/polymarkets-csp-allowed-every-part-of-the-2-6-million-crypto-theft/
Oracle Health breach disclosures
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/ehrs/oracle-health-breach-exposed-data-of-nearly-20-million-people-report/
DHS employee data leak
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/major-us-homeland-security-breach-exposes-details-on-41-000-employees-undercover-ice-agents-and-contractors-unmasked-in-icepick-data-dump
CHAPTERS
00:00 Black October
02:50 Agent Swarms
05:35 Hidden Communication
10:00 Binance Hack
16:00 Agent Conflicts
20:00 AI Defenses
24:45 Shutdown Problem
27:05 What Comes Next
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