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Government-backed cyber report flags first largely autonomous AI-orchestrated attack
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Fusion42 · 23 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
India's government-backed Digital Threat Report 2025-26 documents GTG-1002, a Chinese state-sponsored cyberattack in which AI performed 80-90% of tactical work with minimal human oversight, using Claude to chain reconnaissance, exploitation, credential theft, and data exfiltration across 30 target organisations. The report flags widening 'AI asymmetry' as attackers deploy autonomous agents faster than defences can adapt, with particular risk to banks dependent on interconnected identities, third-party APIs, and cloud platforms.
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If you sell to banks—APIs, cloud services, identity layers, payment rails, or third-party software—your security posture is now their regulatory liability. One compromised vendor in your supply chain can trigger 70 breaches at once, and AI-driven intrusions will look like legitimate transactions until the audit runs.
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