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Malicious AI agents steal 600K credit cards, infect 100+ sites with skimmers
A financially motivated threat actor is using open-source AI agent frameworks to attack hundreds of online retailers at scale, stealing more than 600,000 credit card records.
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A financially motivated threat actor is leveraging open‑source AI agent frameworks to compromise online retailers at scale, resulting in the theft of more than 600,000 credit‑card records. The campaign has been active since at least July and remained ongoing as of September 22. In a five‑day window the actor breached at least 27 companies and carried out over 100 separate attacks. The operation targets hundreds of sites, deploying skimmers to harvest payment data across the affected merchants.
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