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AI Agents Helped Hack a Government. The Human Still Chose the Target

AI-assisted cyberattacks have spent years living in the future tense. Taiwan now says it dealt with one last month. The country's Ministry of Digital Affairs said government agencies were targeted in July by an overseas campaign that combined human operators with AI-agent techniques, and that monitoring teams detected the activity and the affected agencies handled the incident.

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