AI
CrowdStrike links a Chinese espionage group to AI agents run against more than 200 targets
CrowdStrike said VAPOR PANDA used the ARTEX agent framework, driven mainly by DeepSeek's model plus a second commercial LLM, against more than 200 organisations in at least 14 countries in an 11-day window from 17 October. Post-exploitation was confirmed at nine victims, where the adversary deployed the BLOODALCHEMY backdoor, and a single engagement consumed roughly 1.4 billion input tokens. Recovered transcripts show an operator steering planner and worker agents in Chinese while they ran parallel intrusions.