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Autonomous AI Agent Swarm Targets Taiwanese Government Infrastructure
China-linked threat actors executed the first documented fully autonomous, end-to-end AI-driven cyberattack against the Taiwanese government. Utilizing a swarm of eight distinct AI agents, the attackers leveraged automated reconnaissance to exploit information leakage from a single misconfigured government website. By analyzing embedded metadata, configuration files, and Keycloak objects, the agents mapped network architecture and identified exposed API endpoints and OAuth client IDs. This machine-speed operation resulted in the compromise of 21 interconnected government systems within a four-day window, demonstrating a paradigm shift from human-speed to fully autonomous offensive cyber operations.