China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that a China state-aligned actor dubbed Storm-0940 was behind the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application. During the incident, Storm-0940 used ARTEX, a Go-based agentic AI penetration testing framework that was made closed-source in the wake of its abuse against South Korean financial institutions, to speed up scanning and
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