I don’t think giving an agent access to your bank qualifies as unauthorized access, so my post from 2 days ago isn’t quite as prescient as it seems.
But I suppose this is… better late than never:
“banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong”
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Wow… he wasn’t exaggerating! It really looks like AI.
Looks like a F-35 had babies with a Lambo. It’s got self-recharging thrusters that lets it fly. A 0-60 of 0.59-1.6 sec depending on model. And the base model price somehow seems to be $50k?!
Tesla Roadster. I have so many questions.
The $50k for base model and $250k for mid model has got to be purely the initial deposit. The reservation page is confusing. But a super stripped down 2 seater, with 1.6sec 0-60, with no thrusters does seem like something Tesla could pull off for $50k. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
tesla.com/roadster/reserve#p…
Crypto people: don’t confuse my recent posts for an interest in crypto. Your suffering is simply part of the sport that I enjoy.
I’m here to observe the advancement of hardware implants & supply chain attacks… wherever they may exist.
The crypto industry has taken advantage of tons of normies by overpromising and underdelivering. Almost 20 years and the hardware wallets can’t meet the hardware security of $90 bank card readers… lol
I was into bitcoin starting late 2010/early 2011. When it was $1-5 USD per bitcoin & you could meaningfully mine it on even laptop CPUs & GPUs.
But more importantly, IT HAD SO MUCH POTENTIAL.
I know that OG mentality still exists in tiny slivers. But it’s been dominated by opportunists whose main product seems to be the creation of stagnation and victims.
OMG Cable implant. Grok can’t identify it as possibly malicious even with an x-ray scan. Thats definitely NOT a capacitor… it’s the 2.4ghz antenna 😂
The face you make when a hidden camera catches you deploying covert recording equipment in OpenAI’s meeting rooms. And it’s recording equipment you built using your wife’s ChatGPT account.
CHATGPT BUILD SPY RECORDER, MAKE NO MISTAKES.
ALSO HERE IS THE EXACT HARDWARE ADDRESS OF MY DEVICE.
The future is awesome 😂😂
🚨An employee of OpenAI has been arrested for and charged with using or endeavoring to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.
🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/saudi-nat…
jfc. Hey @sama do you even do background checks at @OpenAI?
Unless this was a controlled sting from the start… how does this person get hired?
MG retweeted
"Let me be very clear: there is not a single piece of evidence that Trezor devices have been compromised."
Are you sure?
zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wa…
While Ledger is trying to downplay a massive amount of their wallets being backdoored, Trezor is lying about the existence of their own wallets being found with backdoors.
And then you have other competitors shilling their product with “we are immune to this” while having an unspoken list of other problems.
The crypto space is so sketchy 😂
Trezor joins the backdoor party!
A few hours ago Trezor posted there is “not a single piece of evidence that Trezor devices have been compromised”. Which conveniently leaves out the fact that @joegrand found implanted Trezor wallets IN THE WILD and even notified Trezor 2 months ago.
Story by @KimZetter:
zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wa…
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$100M across 500+ addresses so far. Crypto hardware wallet owners are freaking out because of a new supply chain attack. Let’s see how we could make it worse!
People are opening their hardware wallets to look for hardware implants. REMINDER: 5 years ago I converted a Ledger into a malicious wallet WITH NO VISIBLE CHANGES. So visual inspection isn’t everything.
The attack seen today is a hardware backdoor that reads the seed phrase right off the screen & sends it to the attacker using its own cellular radio. And it seems the attacker may have purchased an official Ledger reseller so they could ship backdoored wallets to customers. (It’s all still unfolding, not everything is confirmed, new implants are showing up, etc)
A Chinese company bought an official reseller of Ledger, & possibly used an NDA to prevent it from being made public. I will say that even if the new owner wasn’t complicit, mergers & acquisitions are very attractive times to target a company. Lots of stuff is changing quickly, lots of new names, lots of urgent needs, etc.
In theory, the reseller is where they inserted the implants. They opened legit Ledger wallets and added an extra PCB with extra components. The implant tapped the lines of the Ledger’s screen & was able to read the seed phrase exactly as shown to the user. This phrase was then sent out over a slow cellular radio designed for low traffic IOT.
Tapping the screen has been a known attack. Joe Grand did a talk on it earlier this year. We have seen more “primitive” looking implants that do it.
But buying a company is a big step forward from prior attempts. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some state funding here. I guess we will find out as people dig into the corporate paper trail of the business, the account associated with the cell service, etc.
Hardware wise, they cleaned things up a lot to make it less noticeable to a wallet owner who opens the case. But I can’t help but wonder why they didn’t improve a few areas… I’ll go into that in replies to this post.
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And then there the people shilling alternatives. Like the “my card has no screen” that avoids this attack pathway while adding a whole bunch of different attacks. Several of which are MUCH easier to leverage. 🙄
“but you can still multi-sig uber wallet & sacrifice a chicken inside of a SCIF”. Yes, the hardcore users have always had options to be very secure. But it’s been like 20 years of the crypto industry evolving and it’s still not easy enough for normies to protect themselves. And we have $100M to prove it just this month!
But everyone benefits from having the normies participating. The hardcore users, the sellers of wallets, etc. So they won’t be admitting the industry still isn’t able to offer a safe solution to normies.
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Trezor joins the backdoor party!
A few hours ago Trezor posted there is “not a single piece of evidence that Trezor devices have been compromised”. Which conveniently leaves out the fact that @joegrand found implanted Trezor wallets IN THE WILD and even notified Trezor 2 months ago.
Story by @KimZetter:
zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wa…
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