Lazarus Group, linked to North Korea, ran a cyberespionage campaign dubbed Operation FlashHole against South Korean organizations. The campaign combined spear-phishing, tailored websites, abuse of the financial security application INISAFE CrossWeb EX, and modular malware that ran largely in memory. It follows Operation SyncHole, which ab…
Microsoft attributed the recent supply-chain attack on ConnectWise customers' Microsoft 365 environments to Storm-0940, a China-state aligned actor active since 2021. Since at least September 2026 the group has used the open-source agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to automate attacks against hundreds of organizations worldwi…
Microsoft assesses that the China-aligned actor Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to compromise the Microsoft 365 tenants of ConnectWise, then pivoted to its downstream customers. The campaign began in September 2026 and targeted hundreds of organizations worldwide across aerospace and defense, energy, fin…
Microsoft attributed the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application to Storm-0940, a China state-aligned actor. The actor used ARTEX, a Go-based agentic AI penetration testing framework, to automate reconnaissance, password spraying and OAuth application abuse at "machine speed" against hundreds of organiza…