Thursday 5 November
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CERT-In warns of ongoing AI-assisted attacks on Indian banking and financial firms

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describes Crafty Falcon as an AI-assisted threat actor actively targeting Indian Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) organisations using publicly available AI-driven offensive security tools. The article headline also references a backdoored ARTEX product exposing 62 consoles to root access, but the body text supplied is truncated and gives no further detail on affected versions, CVE identifiers or indicators. Defenders in the BFSI sector should consult the full CERT-In advisory for guidance.

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What to do

  1. Read the full CERT-In disclosure for its guidance, as the excerpt provided does not include details.
  2. Check whether your organisation uses ARTEX consoles, as the headline reports a backdoor exposing 62 consoles to root access.

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  1. Thu 5 NovemberCERT-In Flags AI-Driven Attacks as Backdoored ARTEX Exposes 62 Consoles to Root AccessThe Hacker News

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