Forensic Summary

Two threat campaigns targeting organisations in Mexico and Brazil have leveraged AI agents to dynamically generate customised hacking tools, marking a notable escalation in automated, AI-assisted cyberattacks. The use of AI agents for on-the-fly tool generation lowers the technical barrier for attackers and accelerates the attack cycle. This represents a concrete, in-the-wild demonstration of agentic AI being exploited as an offensive capability.

Read the full technical deep-dive on Grid the Grey: https://gridthegrey.com/posts/ai-agents-weaponised-to-generate-custom-attack-tools-in-latam-campaigns/