Government-backed cyber report flags first largely autonomous AI-orchestrated attack

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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