Recorded Future's Insikt Group (report of October 16) tracks a suspected Chinese-speaking actor, TAG-217, linked to attacks on South Korean financial institutions. The actor used Claude Code, DeepSeek, Grok and Zhipu AI alongside ARTEX, an open-source Chinese-language AI penetration testing framework. Public reporting cited in the investi…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group tracks the actor behind the October 2026 AI-assisted intrusions into South Korean financial institutions as TAG-217. The group was testing infrastructure and assembling attack tools as early as August 2026, weeks before the campaign became public. South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) disclosed t…
F5 Labs' January 2026 AI security roundup covers two attack developments: the Persona Bullying jailbreak and a critical LangChain serialization injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-68664) reachable through prompt injection. Persona Bullying applies human social-engineering tactics such as gaslighting, ridicule and social pressure to LLMs con…
A Chinese-speaking threat operator combined the agentic penetration-testing framework ARTEX with Claude Code, Codex and configurations requesting DeepSeek, GLM and Grok models to coordinate attacks on organizations worldwide. Recovered prompts dated August 4 to October 4, 2026 referenced targets in financial services, cryptocurrency, reta…
The NSA, CISA and FBI issued joint advisory AA26-251A warning that China-based AI companies are running industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns against U.S. frontier AI models. The named companies are DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI. According to the agencies, they have extracted billions of tokens acro…