China-backed group used agentic AI tool ARTEX to compromise about 140 targets in 11 days
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- Severity
- High
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What happened
CrowdStrike tracks the China state-backed group Vapor Panda, which is using ARTEX, an automated agentic AI penetration testing framework, paired with DeepSeek. The campaign has targeted more than 200 organisations in at least 14 countries since 17 October, with about 70% of targets confirmed or likely compromised, and it remains active. CrowdStrike says organisations need visibility into endpoints, identities and cross-domain capabilities to respond.
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What to do
- Ensure you have visibility into endpoints, identities and cross-domain activity so that agentic-speed intrusions can be detected.
- Treat the speed and scale of this campaign as a reason to act now rather than wait for further guidance.
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