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The AI Hacker Myth: 3 Days, 6 Minutes, and One Very Buggy Botnet | Episode 12
Three headlines, one question: is AI doing something new, or just typing faster?
Rachel James and Dr. Brian Nakayama read the fine print with host Dave Hatt.
72-hour AWS compromise — Solo actor, no zero-day, no novel malware. The "AI tell" was tempo: four access keys used in the same second, hundreds of parallel SQL queries. Compelling, but nobody has a base rate for what a skilled human does without AI.
TuxBot v3 — A vibe-coded botnet that shipped with the model's "for educational purposes only" disclaimer still in it. Broken exploits, hallucinated encryption. Unit 42 rated it ~70%…
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