Taiwan says it was targeted last month in AI-driven hacking campaign

TAIPEI: Taiwan detected artificial intelligence-assisted cyberattacks on government agencies last month coming from overseas, but the affected bodies successfully "handled" the incident, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said on Thursday (Aug 13).In a statement, the Ministry of Digital Affairs said its cybersecurity monitoring units detected the "abnormal attack" targeting government agencies in July, and beginning Jul 20, its National Institute of Cyber Security issued a series of warning alerts while it investigated.The investigation results showed the attacks displayed clear characteristics of an "overseas source", with hackers employing a hybrid approach that combined manual operations with AI agent-assisted attacks, such as Open Claw, it said."The relevant attack sources, methods and sc