AI-Powered Hacking Tools Proliferate Across Platforms, Enabling Autonomous Attack Orchestration in East Asia
Since WormGPT emerged in June 2023, AI-driven hacking tools have spread via dark web, Telegram, GitHub, and Hugging Face, evolving into a hybrid market of paid SaaS and free open-source distribution. These tools automate phishing, malware development, reconnaissance, brute-forcing, vulnerability exploitation, and social engineering, lowering entry barriers while enabling autonomous attack orchestration, as seen in the Bissa Scanner case exploiting CVE-2025-55182 to compromise over 900 systems and steal 65,000+ credential files, including those linked to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS, Stripe, and PayPal. Read more