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CrowdStrike ties South Korean bank hacks to one AI-armed attacker

Attribution of last week's breaches to a single operator using open-source hacking tools and several frontier models resets assumptions about how much damage one person with AI can

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Last week some of South Korea's biggest banks were hit by a cyberattack. Thanks to a report from CrowdStrike tonight, we now know the entire hack may have been done by a single person. He used a combined stack of an open-source AI penetration tool named ARTEX, DeepSeek v4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3, Grok 4.6, and Claude Code.
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