Overseas hackers used artificial intelligence agents to help carry out a wave of cyberattacks targeting Taiwanese government agencies in July, the island's digital affairs ministry said Thursday. The cyberattacks began in July and the "affected agencies have successively completed the response measures", the Ministry of Digital Affairs said in a statement, without providing further details on the scale, damage or targets of the attacks.

China-linked hackers used autonomous AI agents against Taiwan as the island tested its response to a potential communications blackout.

Experts warn that every government should now assume it is under permanent automated assault.