AI agents scale and speed up Chinese-linked attacks

Help Net SecurityNovember 3, 2026AI Threat Intel

A China-nexus espionage group used AI agents to attack more than 200 organizations in 11 days, CrowdStrike said last week. On Monday, Kaspersky published details of a separate campaign against educational institutions in Africa and Latin America, mounted by Chinese-speaking operators.

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