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AI-Assisted Hackers Target Financial Firms
India's Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-In, has issued a critical warning about escalating AI-assisted attacks on financial institutions, including cryptocurrency exchanges and virtual digital asset service providers. The advisory describes an ongoing campaign that abuses financial institutions' own cloud services and payment interfaces to move funds, resulting in stolen wallet keys and funds siphoned from cryptocurrency wallets. CERT-In specifically identifies re-targeting after incomplete remediation, with attacks timed for holidays, weekends, and other periods of reduced monitoring.