Threat Actor Abuses Agentic AI Pentesting Framework to Target South Korean Financial Institutions
From the source: Zscaler ThreatLabz
Zscaler ThreatLabz analyzed a recently active exploitation campaign in which a threat actor abused ARTEX to target South Korean financial institutions. ARTEX is an open source agentic penetration testing framework developed in China that uses large language models (LLMs) to automate reconnaissance and exploitation tasks. First observed in late September 2026, the campaign affected…
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