South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks
thoughtpeddler · hn · 2026-10-07
Reuters reports that South Korean officials say AI agents appear to have been used in hacks targeting the country's banks — a rare public admission that autonomous AI tooling was deployed in real financial cyberattacks. Details remain scarce, but it marks a shift of agentic AI from theoretical risk to observed attack technique.
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