Report: criminal group ran a swarm of AI agents against 400+ Latin American banks
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Security firm Straiker reported that a criminal group built an automated system of AI agents, using several commercial models, to attack more than 400 Latin American financial institutions. Anthropic cut off the group's access and an investigation is under way.
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