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Malicious AI Agents Steal 600K Credit Cards From 100+ Sites
A financially motivated threat actor is using open-source AI agent frameworks to automate attacks against hundreds of online retailers, installing payment-card skimmers that have stolen more than 600,000 credit card records.
Disclosed 23 September 2026 · Record updated 1 October 2026
Impact
Over 600,000 credit card records stolen from more than 100 compromised online retail websites via skimmer malware deployed using AI agent frameworks.
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IncidentsA financially motivated attacker is using open-source agent frameworks to plant payment skimmers on more than 100 retail sites, BleepingComputer reported on 23 September 2026.
23 Sept 2026
Sources
- bleepingcomputer.comhttps://bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-ai-agents-steal-600k-credit-cards-infect-100-plus-sites-with-skimmers