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Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development

Aug 10, 2026, 01:19 PM · by The Hacker News

North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its possession, and collecting the software parts needed to build AI into its malware. South Korean security firm Genians says it uncovered the

The incident highlights how adversaries continue to evolve their tradecraft, combining increasingly accessible tooling with targeted social engineering to slip past traditional perimeter defenses.

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Source: The Hacker News