Hacking at Machine Speed: Microsoft Ties a Chinese State-Aligned Group to an AI Attack Tool

Podcast: Daily AI Safety News · Nathan Nguyen

Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

On October 21, Microsoft reported that Storm-0940, a hacking group it describes as aligned with the Chinese state, used ARTEX, a free AI agent framework for probing computer systems, to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations. In some cases the group reached privileged cloud access in under three hours, and Microsoft assesses it was behind the ConnectWise Cloud Backup breach. The case suggests AI tools are shortening the time defenders have to respond. In this episode What ARTEX is, and why it works with any AI model plugged into itMicrosoft's three findings: sub-three-hour break-ins, a 151,000-attempt password-guessing...