How AI may have handed Iran’s proxies a map to US infra
BENGALURU: Within hours of US and Israeli strikes hitting Iran on Feb 28, over 50 hacktivist groups aligned with Iranian interests had activated on Telegram. Many possibly had no background in industrial control systems and no state direction.
What they had was an internet connection and an AI tool that could hand them a working map of vulnerable US infrastructure. That combination — motivated actors, accessible AI, and a growing attack surface — is the central argument of a new report from cybersecurity firm CloudSEK.
