EventCybersecurityOctober 8, 2026

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

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CrowdStrike traced a campaign active late September to early October 2026 that exfiltrated data using ARTEX, an open-source agentic pentesting tool developed in China by Autumn-27. The operator ran it on DeepSeek v4.1-flash with GLM-5.3 and Grok 4.6, and Claude Code session histories leaked via open directories on a Hong Kong IP.

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3 weeks · 2 reports · 2 community posts · from Oct 7

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