● AgentsNov 2, 2026 · 20:238 sources
Chinese AI Hacking Campaign Compromises 140 Global Organizations in 11 Days
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A China-linked hacking group known as Vapor Panda used artificial intelligence to target more than 200 organizations in 14 countries over an 11 day period. The campaign compromised about 140 targets, including 19 U.S. entities in sectors such as nuclear, defense, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and financial. Attackers used the ARTEX agentic AI framework and DeepSeek large language models to automate intrusion, increasing speed from 40 to more than 1,500 commands per hour. The activity followed a supply chain breach of ConnectWise Cloud Backup.
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- SUPPORT@cyberscoopnews“CrowdStrike told CyberScoop about 70% of Vapor Panda’s targets were confirmed compromised or had evidence indicating moderate confidence of a successful intrusion”x.com
- SUPPORT@saranormous““it’s not a nation state actor” oh wait it’s obviously China”x.com
- SUPPORT@martin_casado“I dunno, at some point we just need to unalign Claude and let it save the free world”x.com
- SUPPORT@rohanpaul_ai“ARTEX, released on GitHub as open source, chains LLM agents through a penetration test from reconnaissance to data theft with little human input.”x.com
- SUPPORT@milkroadai“The AI agents took the attack from about 40 commands an hour to more than 1,500 commands an hour and one single intrusion used about 1.4B tokens.”x.com
- SUPPORT@kimmonismus“Microsoft says a China-aligned group used an open-source agent framework to hit 2,250+ Microsoft 365 tenants at 2,900 sign-in attempts a minute”x.com