'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan's nuclear safety agency
Suspected Chinese cyber operatives used publicly available AI tools to compromise Taiwanese government systems before expanding the attack to its nuclear safety agency, supply-chain vendors, and at least seven energy companies in what security researchers called a "near-autonomous attack."
Over the first four days of July, AI agents compromised 85 government user accounts and extracted more than 2,500 personnel records, according to Dream, an Israeli cybersecurity firm. Researchers uncovered evidence of the attack in a 160 MB online archive containing 1,395 files documenting the operation.
Dream, in research published on Wednesday, detailed the intrusions and said that the suspected Chinese hackers hit “government entities in Asia” - but declined to say which government had been attacked.
A person familiar with the attack confirmed to The Register that Taiwan was the target.
The Financial Times first reported on Dream’s research and identified Taiwan.
While the security firm doesn’t attribute the agentic...
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