GoKawiil
Tech News
Roughly 80 Japanese companies were targeted in cyberattacks originating from overseas, with investigators finding digital traces pointing to Artex, an AI agent developed in China. Details on the specific companies affected or the extent of damage have not been disclosed.
CrowdStrike reported that a Chinese-speaking hacker used the ARTEX AI penetration testing suite alongside Claude Code agents to attack major South Korean banks including Shinhan, KB Kookmin, and Hana, exposing customer personal and credit card data and causing outages at some institutions. Researchers found open directories containing Claude session histories and ARTEX configuration files that tied the attacker's infrastructure to the breaches and revealed identifying details from a résumé the attacker had generated with the same tools.