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AI Agent ARTEX Weaponised in ConnectWise Supply Chain Breach

AI Agent ARTEX Weaponised in ConnectWise Supply Chain Breach

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL Active exploitation · Immediate action required ▲ 8.2 TechCrunch AI

Chinese state-aligned hackers breached ConnectWise's cloud backup service, stealing application credentials to access thousands of corporate Microsoft-hosted environments. The attackers deployed ARTEX, an open-source AI agent framework, to automate intrusions across approximately 2,250 organisations at nearly 3,000 sign-in attempts per minute. The incident marks a significant escalation in adversarial use of AI agents for large-scale, high-velocity credential-based attacks.

DeepSeek AI Agent Weaponised in Proxyjacking Attack on Security Firm

DeepSeek AI Agent Weaponised in Proxyjacking Attack on Security Firm

ATLAS OWASP CRITICAL Active exploitation · Immediate action required ▲ 8.5 Dark Reading

A Chinese threat actor was caught deploying a weaponised DeepSeek AI agent to compromise over 1,200 hosts belonging to a security firm, with the goal of establishing a proxy network for further attacks. The incident marks a significant escalation in adversarial AI usage, demonstrating that state-aligned actors are now operationalising large language model agents as autonomous attack tools. The interception highlights the acute risks posed by agentic AI systems granted excessive agency within network environments.

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