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Adam Meyers

Senior vice president of counter adversary work, CrowdStrike

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“The models don't all have equivalent guardrails and protections, even from one company,”
AI Guardrails Aren't Stopping Criminal HackersWIRED, October 21, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Meyers explains why the attackers used several models together.
“What we are seeing is humans are doing some of the initial probing in these situations and then they’re engaging the AI for the hacking at scale,”
AI Guardrails Aren't Stopping Criminal HackersWIRED, October 21, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Meyers describes how the four groups divided work between people and AI agents.

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  1. NewsWIREDSpeaks

    AI Guardrails Aren't Stopping Criminal Hackers

    WIRED reports on CrowdStrike research into four previously unreported hacking groups that used AI agents, mostly versions of Anthropic's Claude and open-weight DeepSeek models, in attacks between May and August. All four got around model safeguards, mainly by claiming the work was authorized.