CrowdStrike

Recent signals

• CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler AI, which helps monitor AI agents, for ~$400M, and Dreadnode, an automated security AI testing tool, for ~$95M, mostly in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal) Nov 3, 2026
• Chinese Hackers Use AI-Powered ARTEX to Target Over 200 Organizations Worldwide Oct 30, 2026
• CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used AI tool ARTEX with a DeepSeek LLM and another model to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, compromising at least nine (Kevin Collier/NBC News) Oct 30, 2026
• The Chinese developer of ARTEX says they have converted the AI agent into a closed-source project after CrowdStrike said it was used to hack South Korean banks (Brenda Goh/Reuters) Oct 9, 2026
• Anthropic debuts the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program to provide AI models, threat research, and on-site engineers, starting with CrowdStrike and others (Sam Sabin/Axios) Oct 8, 2026
• ARTEX AI Pentesting Tool Used in Data Theft Attacks on South Korean Financial Firms Oct 8, 2026
• Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX (Ashley Campion/CrowdStrike) Oct 8, 2026
• Chinese Hacker Deployed AI in Campaign Against South Korean Banks Oct 8, 2026
• Salt Security expands CrowdStrike integration to tackle AI agent security Sep 17, 2026
• Cybersecurity stocks were the top performers in the S&P 500 on Monday amid escalating AI fears; CrowdStrike rose 14%, Palo Alto Networks 13%, and Fortinet 9% (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch) Sep 14, 2026
• Why AI raises the stakes for exposure validation Sep 11, 2026
• Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 29% and CrowdStrike up 20.5%, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools Aug 28, 2026