AI-assisted attack steals over 2,000 Tajik government documents
Evidence emerged that the cyberespionage group Silent Lynx accessed a government electronic document system using a Tajik railway employee’s account and stole more than 2,000 documents, including materials related to the Ministry of Defense. CloudSEK assessed that the attackers used the Hermes AI agent running a DeepSeek model for reconnaissance and to collect and organize documents. The governments of Tajikistan and Kazakhstan did not respond to requests for confirmation on November 11.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Government of Tajikistan
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Theft of more than 2,000 documents, including materials related to national security and defense
- Cause / method
- Access to a government electronic document system using a railway employee’s account and document collection using an AI agent
- Location
- Tajikistan
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Timeline
- CloudSEK disclosed evidence that Silent Lynx had stolen more than 2,000 Tajik government documents using an AI agent.
- Details emerged of access to the government electronic document system through a railway employee’s account and the use of AI for reconnaissance and document collection.
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