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title: "Silicon Valley’s AI Agent Push Has Been Paying Off—for Cybercriminals"
date: 2026-09-07
source: https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-ai-agent-push-has-been-paying-off-for-cybercriminals-2000808764
description: "Threat actors in China, Iran, and Russia have been moving away from simple prompt-and-reply chatbots to more autonomous systems, a new report from Google has found."
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# Silicon Valley’s AI Agent Push Has Been Paying Off—for Cybercriminals

Threat actors in China, Iran, and Russia have been moving away from simple prompt-and-reply chatbots to more autonomous systems, a new report from Google has found.

*Published: 2026-09-07*