{"id":12608,"date":"2026-05-05T07:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/2026-year-of-ai-assisted-attacks-html\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:03:38","slug":"2026-year-of-ai-assisted-attacks-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/2026-year-of-ai-assisted-attacks-html\/","title":{"rendered":"2026: The Year of AI-Assisted Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    2026: The Year of AI-Assisted Attacks<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>On December 4, 2025, a 17-year-old was arrested in Osaka under Japan\u2019s Unauthorized Access Prohibition Act. The young man had run malicious code to extract the personal data of over 7 million users of Kaikatsu Club, Japan&#8217;s largest internet cafe chain. When asked, the young man shared his motivation for the hack: he wanted to buy Pok\u00e9mon cards.<br \/>\nIn a sense, this is a fairly conventional story.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/2026-year-of-ai-assisted-attacks.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026: The Year of AI-Assisted Attacks On December 4, 2025, a 17-year-old was arrested in Osaka under Japan\u2019s Unauthorized Access Prohibition Act. The young man had run malicious code to extract the personal data of over 7 million users of Kaikatsu Club, Japan&#8217;s largest internet cafe chain. When asked, the young man shared his motivation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-12608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}