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AI-Powered Cybercrime Surge: Low-Skill Hackers Now Breaching Hundreds of Networks Worldwide

A new wave of cyberattacks is reshaping the global threat landscape, as commercially available artificial intelligence tools enable even relatively unskilled hackers to carry out large-scale ...

by Amazon Threat Intelligence, a financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor leveraged multiple generative AI services to compromise more than 600 FortiGate network devices across at least 55 countries between January 11 and February 18, 2026. The campaign, notable for its scale and efficiency, signals a pivotal shift in how cybercrime is conducted in the age of AI. Check out here

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