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  "id": 12861093,
  "title": "Analysis: the hacker who targeted South Korean banks is likely Chinese-speaking, financially motivated, and used LLMs and open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX (Ashley Campion/CrowdStrike)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/analysis-the-hacker-who-targeted-south-korean-banks-is-likely-chinese",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-08T11:35:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
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    "url": "https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/unknown-threat-actor-uses-artex-to-target-south-korean-finance/"
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  "account": null,
  "summary": "CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "South Korea plans to launch a ~$3.5B program to develop a frontier AI model starting as early as March 2027 and will open a competition to select participants (Jie Ye-eun/The Korea Herald)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/south-korea-plans-to-launch-a-3-5b-program-to-develop-a-frontier-ai",
        "published": "2026-10-06T10:00:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Hackers used a Chinese AI tool to breach 7 South Korean banks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/hackers-used-a-chinese-ai-tool-to-breach-7-south-korean-banks",
        "published": "2026-10-06T11:50:34.000Z"
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        "outlet": "The Business Times - Companies & Markets",
        "title": "South Korea investigates possible use of AI in hacks on its banks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/south-korea-investigates-possible-use-of-ai-in-hacks-on-its-banks",
        "published": "2026-10-06T12:04:13.000Z"
      },
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        "outlet": "The Hill",
        "title": "President of South Korea believes AI models were used in bank hacks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/president-of-south-korea-believes-ai-models-were-used-in-bank-hacks",
        "published": "2026-10-06T21:50:18.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
        "title": "AI appears to have been used in bank hacks: South Korean President Lee",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/ai-appears-to-have-been-used-in-bank-hacks-south-korean-president-lee",
        "published": "2026-10-07T05:42:18.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "Suspect behind South Korea bank hacks may be 26-year-old in China, CrowdStrike says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/suspect-behind-south-korea-bank-hacks-may-be-26-year-old-in-china",
        "published": "2026-10-08T05:33:56.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "CrowdStrike links South Korean bank hacks to China-based attacker using AI",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/crowdstrike-links-south-korean-bank-hacks-to-china-based-attacker",
        "published": "2026-10-08T08:58:57.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Semafor",
        "title": "Companies in Japan, South Korea hit by major cyberattacks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/companies-in-japan-south-korea-hit-by-major-cyberattacks",
        "published": "2026-10-08T11:10:53.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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