Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies that came from overseas last month, a new kind of threat that has been reported as “first-of-a-kind breach”.
The Ministry of Digital Affairs (MDA) said its cybersecurity monitoring units detected the “abnormal attack” targeting government agencies, which began on 20 July. The National Institute of Cyber Security issued a series of warning alerts while it investigated.
The Financial Times quoted Dream – an Israeli AI company that detected the intrusion – as saying the attackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that behaved like a coordinated cyber team, describing it as a first-of-a-kind breach.
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