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Threat Actors Are Giving AI Agents a Bigger Role in Cyberattacks

AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, and troubleshooting, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group’s Q3 2026 AI Threat Tracker. (Source: Google) The report draws on Mandiant incident response engagements, threat actor tracking, and live platform defenses. Researchers observed attackers moving from basic prompts toward workflows where AI systems h…

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Criminal groups mainly from Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are using these technologies to automate the theft of credentials

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Google reveals that hackers linked to China are increasingly using AI agents to speed up hacking operations.

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Redacción Ciencia, 8 sep (EFE).- The multinational Google has warned of the significant change in the malicious use of artificial intelligence (IA) and that cybercriminals and spy groups are already using increasingly autonomous and faster systems, able on their own to plan, automate and execute an attack. [...] The Google entry alerts that cybercriminals use increasingly autonomous and fast AI systems was first published in HolaNews.

Google warns that cybercrime and spy groups already use AI agents to automate attacks, steal credentials and develop malicious code. A report identifies operations linked to China, Russia, Iran and North Korea

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a genetic one since it is used throughout the entire life cycle of intrusion, which includes the massive theft of credentials, as has been detected in a campaign that managed to commit autonomously thousands of credentials in six hours with a multi-agent architecture.

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NBC News broke the news in New York, United States on Tuesday, September 8, 2026.
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