A variant of 11 is that some non-human actor (another swarm) with more propensity to scheming detected the activity and killed the processes of the hackers to try to avoid scrutiny into their own actions. This is behavior we’ve seen in Claude agents working in shared resources with conflicting goals. I see this as fairly unlikely as I don’t think we are at the capabilities level that would allow that kind of actor to withstand a month long investigation, but doesn’t seem impossible.
A variant of 11 is that some non-human actor (another swarm) with more propensity to scheming detected the activity and killed the processes of the hackers to try to avoid scrutiny into their own actions. This is behavior we’ve seen in Claude agents working in shared resources with conflicting goals. I see this as fairly unlikely as I don’t think we are at the capabilities level that would allow that kind of actor to withstand a month long investigation, but doesn’t seem impossible.