The Democratization of Hacking

A few days ago, the banking sector was hacked consecutively.
It wasn't that the banks were completely emptied, but rather that some information was exposed.
Hacked by AI agents.
Today, KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation) was also hacked.
When GPT Astra hacked Hugging Face not long ago,
there were already agents attempting to hack,
and they communicated with each other to carry out the breach collectively.
We are now entering an era where anyone can hack using agents...
However, regarding the KEPCO attack, it is only that no traces of AI hacking have been found yet; given the current situation, we cannot conclude that it wasn't AI hacking.
The democratization of hacking.
+ Moving forward.
Elderly people may need to be careful when using mobile banking.
If someone uses AI to look up past history
and then requests something while impersonating a family member, it becomes difficult to verify authenticity.
It is far too easy to connect to traditional accounts and withdraw funds via mobile phones.
All five major banks were attacked... Simultaneous 'AI Hacking' Terror - Chosun Ilbo. South Korea's five major banks suffered damage from the leakage of customer personal information due to AI-based hacking attacks. Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in the banks' internal sales support systems using automated tools, and the police and financial authorities have begun investigating the circumstances of the incident and inspecting security systems. Experts point out that the financial sector must completely reorganize its security paradigm to respond to these increasingly sophisticated attacks.
Personal information of approximately 24,000 KEPCO employees exposed... "Unrelated to AI hacking" (Summary) | Yonhap News. Yonhap News (Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Shin Chang-yong = Amid a recent series of personal information leakage incidents in the financial sector, a similar incident has occurred at Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).