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. Though the campaigns don’t appear to be connected, they are executed the same way: a human picks the targets and sets the goals, and a large language model (LLM) decides which commands to run … More
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