Google Warns AI Agents Are Automating Credential Theft at Unprecedented Scale

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"Agentic AI is enabling cybercriminals to coordinate complex infrastructure systems to steal credentials. These tools can manage multiple stages of an operation and reduce the time attackers spend moving between discovery, exploitation, and collection. The Google Threat Intelligence Group says it observed a suspected financially motivated attacker using an AI coding chatbot and a multi-agent framework to plan, build and execute a mass credential harvesting campaign in less than six hours."