AI hacking tool used in breach of South Korean banks
CrowdStrike says a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker breached multiple South Korean financial institutions, stealing over 25,000 customer records at Shinhan Bank alone. The attacker used ARTEX, an open-source penetration testing tool that relies on AI models including DeepSeek and GLM-5.3.
First seen 8 Oct, 09:24 UTC on The Decoder1 sourceLast update 2d ago
CrowdStrikeIncident · 8 Oct
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