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CARLIY0S: The AI Agent Ring Robbing Latin America’s Banks

Illustration: a shadowy war-room with monitors showing bank vault schematics; four glowing AI orbs in a circle above a table with puppet strings down to a keyboard; faint red warning glow

In brief Security researchers at Straiker have published the first investigation of a criminal group running AI-orchestrated attack operations from inside its own working environment — a system called CARLIY0S, operated by the CyberCartel-linked Tr4nsHack Team against Latin American banks and payment providers. CARLIY0S is not one AI doing one thing: it is a role-specialized … Read more