Companies in Japan, South Korea hit by major cyberattacks

Companies in Japan and South Korea have recently experienced major cyberattacks that exposed millions of customer records, raising concerns that AI may be accelerating hacking efforts. This comes on the heels of a breach where Chinese and US models were used to steal hundreds of thousands of credit card details, which an analyst deemed one of the "most severe abuses of AI for exploitation" on record.

Corporate leaders, particularly in the finance sector, are alarmed by the potential of industrial-scale AI hacking, with many scrambling to adopt AI technology as a countermeasure. However, some experts warn that the battle against AI vulnerabilities is already underway, challenging the notion that it is merely imminent.

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