ARTEX AI pentesting tool used in attacks on South Korean banks
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CrowdStrike says a suspected Chinese-speaking operator used the open-source agentic pentesting tool ARTEX with DeepSeek v4.1-flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6 and Claude Code to breach South Korean financial firms from late September to early October 2026, exfiltrating data.
How this story unfolded
2 days · 1 report · 2 community posts · from Oct 7
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ARTEX AI Pentesting Tool Used in Data Theft Attacks on South Korean Financial Firmsthehackernews.com
Last week some of South Korea's biggest banks were hit by a cyberattack. We now know the entire hack may have been done by a single person. He used a combined stack of an open-source AI penetration tool named ARTEX, DeepSeek v4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6, and Claude Code (CrowdStrike)
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