South Korea's president says AI appears to have been used in recent bank attacks and calls for AI-era cybersecurity upgrades

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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on October 6 that AI models appeared to have been used in some recent attacks against commercial banks and called for cybersecurity methods suited to the AI era. Police are investigating attacks and personal-data breaches, but authorities had not disclosed which AI tools were involved, the full scale of the incidents, or AI's exact role. This entry preserves the original uncertainty rather than presenting AI involvement as technically confirmed attribution.