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CrowdStrike: China-linked hackers used DeepSeek-powered agents to attack more than 200 organizations in 11 days
According to CrowdStrike, the VAPOR PANDA group used an agent framework called ARTEX, powered mainly by DeepSeek, against more than 200 organizations in at least 14 countries, over 11 days starting 10/17. The intrusion was confirmed in 9 of them; among the 19 targets in the US were pharmaceutical, semiconductor, defense, nuclear energy and financial services companies. A single intrusion consumed 1.4 billion input tokens, and the agents were instructed to look for machines without the Falcon antivirus.
Published in edition no. 3 of Noticiário do Joãozinho ·
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Original source
https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/vapor-panda-uses-artex-to-scale-global-campaign/