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BrianKrebs (briankrebs@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jun-2026 09:58:11 JST BrianKrebs

How long until we start to see AI agents weaponized to impoverish gullible humans with crippling AWS bandwidth bills? Oh wait...
https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/
The threat I'm thinking of is like black faxing in the old days, except against your wallet instead of your toner cartridge.
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  A black fax is a prank fax transmission consisting of one or more pages entirely filled with a uniform black tone. The sender's intention is generally to use up as much of the recipient's fax ink, toner, or thermal paper as possible, thus costing the recipient money, as well as denying the recipient use of their own machine (similar to computer-based denial of service attacks). This is made easier because fax transmission protocols compress the solid black image very well, so a very short fax call can produce many pages. Use Black faxes have been used to harass large institutions or government departments, to retaliate against the senders of junk faxes, or merely as simple pranks. The basic principle of a black fax can be extended to form a black fax attack. In this case, one or more sheets are fed halfway through the sender's fax machine and taped end to end, forming an endless loop that cycles through the machine. Not only can solid black be used, but also images that will repeat endlessly on the receiver's machine until its toner runs out. History The introduction of computer...
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  @briankrebs The exchanges with the AI bot were bizarre and amusing. Not so amusing would be thousands of them doing this all over the place. The owners of the companies who have foisted this gangland strong-arm tech on a gullible planet need to bear the financial consequences, too, not just the operators.
  
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