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Threat Actor Leverages AI-Driven ARTEX Tooling to Target South Korean Financial Institutions

An unidentified, likely Chinese-speaking threat actor is targeting South Korean financial entities using the open-source ARTEX penetration testing framework managed by Large Language Models to conduct reconnaissance and data exfiltration.

financial-sector ai-threat exfiltration lateral-movement reconnaissance
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Privilege Escalation in IBM Financial Transaction Manager for Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) for Red Hat OpenShift contains a critical privilege management flaw, CVE-2026-17645, that allows a remote authenticated attacker to escalate privileges.

Financial Transaction Manager +1 privilege-escalation financial-sector enterprise-application
2t 1c
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Global Stock Exchange Hit by Monthslong Email Campaign

An unknown threat actor gained continuous administrative access to a senior finance executive's Microsoft Outlook mailbox at a global stock exchange for at least five months, deploying custom infostealers via scheduled tasks and exfiltrating sensitive emails through a Dropbox-based command and control channel after an initial lateral movement event.

Microsoft Outlook +2 espionage financial-sector email-exfiltration persistence living-off-the-land windows advanced-persistent-threat
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