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   Hacker behind South Korean bank attacks used LLMs and ARTEX, CrowdStrike says

   CrowdStrike Intelligence says it identified infrastructure tied to a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data. The analysis assesses the actor is likely Chinese-speaking and financially motivated, and used LLMs along with the open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX.

   Techmeme · 🔥 4
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   ARTEX developer closes source after CrowdStrike links agent to South Korean bank hacks

   Since late September, South Korean financial firms have suffered a string of cyberattacks and data leaks, prompting the country's financial regulator to hold an emergency meeting and demand an investigation; CrowdStrike said on October 7 that suspected China-linked hackers were combining AI with penetration-testing tools. According to Reuters, the Chinese developer of the AI agent ARTEX — which was identified as being used to hack South Korean banks — said it has converted the project to closed source.

   iThome 台湾 · 🔥 18
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   CrowdStrike links South Korean bank breaches to AI tool ARTEX, Claude Code

   A CrowdStrike report published Oct. 7 says a likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated attacker breached multiple South Korean financial institutions between late September and early October 2026, stealing large amounts of customer data — about 25,000 Shinhan Bank records alone, including names, contact details, income and credit limits. The report says the attacker used ARTEX, a free Chinese open-source autonomous penetration-testing tool built on AI language models, along with Anthropic's Claude Code; chat logs left on the attacker's servers included searches for where to sell the stolen data. President Lee Jae Myung ordered a thorough investigation, and police opened a formal probe on Oct. 6 covering seven financial firms.

   TechRepublic · 🔥 11

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