South Korean officials are probing whether AI agents were used in recent bank hacks, after President Lee Jae Myung said "signs" suggest AI models were involved (New York Times)

South Korean authorities are investigating whether AI agents helped carry out recent bank hacks that exposed customer data, highlighting a new class of AI-enabled cyber threat for financial institutions. For CIOs and IT leaders, the implication is that defenses, monitoring, and incident response plans must evolve to detect machine-speed attacks, misuse of AI tools, and patterns that traditional security controls may miss.