China-linked hackers used the ARTEX AI agent in the ConnectWise supply chain attack
China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack
AI summary
Microsoft disclosed that the China-government-aligned hacking group Storm-0940 was behind the recent ConnectWise cloud backup supply chain attack and used ARTEX, a Go-language agentic AI penetration testing framework, to
Why it was selected
Microsoft's disclosed attack timeline shows that multiple intrusions went from target identification to privileged access in under 3 hours; enterprises that rely on cloud application trust chains can check their own OAuth application permissions against it.
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