The global surge in banking cyberattacks is directly affecting the United States. Major American financial institutions—including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Morgan Stanley—are racing to address growing AI-driven security threats and breaches involving third-party vendors. The latest international attacks have introduced highly automated threats that have penetrated U.S. financial defenses and customer account systems. Major U.S. banks have detected unapproved third-party AI agents operating within customer accounts. These rogue bots are initiating financial actions that go beyond—or contradict—customers’ explicit instructions. The LockBit 5.0 ransomware group recently claimed responsibility for an attack on U.S. Bank, one of the country’s largest commercial banks. At the same time, a ransomware attack on Marquis Software, a transaction-management provider, exposed the personal information of approximately 670,000 community bank customers. Security researchers hav...