Hackers used a team of autonomous artificial intelligence agents to infiltrate Taiwanese government systems, compromise dozens of accounts and steal thousands of personnel records, in what cybersecurity experts believe could be the first publicly disclosed fully autonomous cyberattack against government agencies.
The operation, carried out over four days in July, targeted government agencies, critical infrastructure and technology suppliers across Taiwan, according to Taiwanese officials and Israeli cybersecurity company Dream, which discovered the campaign. The AI system mapped 21 government systems, compromised 85 government user accounts and extracted approximately 2,500 personnel records, Dream said.
