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China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack

Our takeMicrosoft attributes the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply-chain compromise to China-linked Storm-0940, who used the ARTEX Go-based agentic framework to accelerate scanning and enumeration across >2,200 tenants. No technical mechanism for the AI component has been disclosed beyond speed and scale improvements a skilled human operator could already achieve with scripted tooling.
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