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Suspected Chinese hackers reportedly built autonomous hacking tool with open-source AI agents, compromising Taiwanese government sites
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Researchers report that suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to construct an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July, running simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins.
This represents a shift from human-operated intrusion to autonomous AI-driven attacks, where agents independently handle both reconnaissance and exploitation at the same time. Defenders can no longer rely on detecting reconnaissance as an early warning before exploitation begins.
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Suspected Chinese hackers built an autonomous hacking tool using open-source AI agents
The tool compromised Taiwanese government websites in July through simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins
Researchers describe this as a new phase of cyberwarfare
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