rethinking threat models when the cost is tokens not time

another by-product of anatomy of a frontier lab agent intrusion: a technical timeline of the july 2026 incident is that the adversary mindset is not the same. puppet accounts , social engineering and grinding through k8s manifests were all part of the process for the agents. one caveat is these reports are not based around token costs as they were frontier labs. but in the not so distant future…