EventCybersecurityOctober 8, 2026

ARTEX AI pentesting tool used in data theft attacks on South Korean financial firms

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CrowdStrike traced a late September–early October 2026 campaign that exfiltrated data using ARTEX, an open-source agentic pentesting tool developed in China by Autumn-27. The operator ran it on a Hong Kong IP with DeepSeek v4.1-flash as the main backend, supplemented by GLM-5.3 and Grok 4.6, and used Claude Code sessions.

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