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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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Sources

  1. bleepingcomputer.comhttps://bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-ai-agents-steal-600k-credit-cards-infect-100-plus-sites-with-skimmers