CrowdStrike: China-Linked Hackers Used DeepSeek LLM to Hit 200+ Orgs in 11 Days
BenBajarin · x · 2026-10-30
CrowdStrike reports that a China-linked hacking group used an AI tool called ARTEX, combining a DeepSeek LLM with another model, to target more than 200 organizations in 11 days and compromise at least nine.
Analyst Ben Bajarin comments that frontier models are necessary for defense, that enterprise security shields for agentic AI can't ship fast enough, and that his CSO survey will show agentic cyber budgets about to go parabolic.
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