---
title: "China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/china-linked-hackers-use-artex-ai-agents-in-connectwise-supply-chain-f0e5f301
published: 2026-10-22T04:21:26.000Z
byline: "Source: The Hacker News"
---

# China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack

Source: The Hacker News · Published 2026-10-22 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/china-linked-hackers-use-artex-ai-agents-in-connectwise-supply-chain-f0e5f301

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

## Sources

- [Read the original at The Hacker News](https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/china-linked-hackers-use-artex-ai.html)

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