News Summary

• Taiwan says it spent part of last month fending off a hacking campaign that leaned on artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting.
• The government agencies were targeted in July, with alerts going out from around 20 July.
• Over roughly four days the attackers extracted “scores of passwords”, stole personnel records from the justice ministry, and probed a nuclear-safety agency for vulnerabilities.
• Officials described the source as overseas but stopped short of naming a culprit, and no threat-actor group has been identified.