New research from Sysdig, reported by The Hacker News, documents a human attacker exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Marimo and reaching an SSH bastion within eight seconds of initial access. The incident is presented as evidence that speed is not exclusively an AI-driven trait.
According to the report, AI is compressing the time between vulnerability discovery and exploitation and making it easier for less skilled actors to launch attacks. But this case shows that a knowledgeable human operator can operate on a similar timescale after gaining a foothold.
Because there is only one source, there are no conflicting accounts to compare. The key caveat is that the details beyond the eight-second timeline and the general AI context are limited in the available excerpt.