South Korea says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks

hc49

We dont need banks. Interest bearing CBDC wallets is all most people need. Richie rich already hire people to keep tabs on their assets.

iAMkenough

Waiting for the day AI agents break into Nasdaq to achieve a goal.

penskymaterial

They didn't have this problem when they forced everyone to use Internet Explorer + ActiveX...

jdw64

I recently read reports about Korean banks that were not affected by the latest hacking incident.. They restrict work access to designated tablets only, and they don’t give loan recruiters access to the internal network or even a separate work system. When a recruiter hands a case over to a branch, the rest of the process is handled internally. Looking at this, it seems that rather than making things easier because of AI, it actually requires more bureaucratic handling. The surface that made people comfortable is, paradoxically, becoming AI’s attack surface.

WheatMillington

Doesn't SK have famously, laughably terrible internet security by law?

tangotaylor

I’m curious to see their evidence on how they knew it was AI agents and which agents were used.

consumer451

SK is such a crazy arc. Somewhat recently got over famine and authoritarianism, then five families took over the whole country, while growing the economy to crazy levels per capita, in the fastest time ever. They took over global pop music, while also entering demographic collapse faster than anyone. In 2024 they had their own Jan 6th type event, but democracy appears to have won? Yet last month, they sent 30% of Russia's diesel imports via their ports, while very loudly complaining about the public announcement of two captured NK soldiers in Ukraine. I am very ignorant, and I genuinely have no idea what is happening in SK. But last month, they were helping fund the NK + Russian war machine? What a trip.