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South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.

This week, Axios reported that major US banks were detecting third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts. In many cases, customers have given the agents their usernames and passwords so they could act on their behalf. This kind of access can violate a bank’s rules. Bianco Research president Jim Bianco…

The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.

Anthropic has filed for an IPO that could rank among Wall Street's biggest ever, revealing an $80.7 billion half-year loss, a startlingly complex governance structure, and warnings that its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or create "existential risks" to society. The Claude maker filed its S-1…

Some build specialized agentic AI coverage, while major carriers quietly exclude it — leaving enterprises exposed without their knowledge.

IntroductionIn October 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz investigated AI-assisted cyberattacks that combined the ARTEX penetration testing framework with AI coding assistants and custom automation scripts. Initial reporting of the incident identified the targeting of South Korean financial institutions. However, ThreatLabz…

IntroductionZscaler ThreatLabz analyzed a recently active exploitation campaign in which a threat actor abused ARTEX to target South Korean financial institutions. ARTEX is an open source agentic penetration testing framework developed in China that uses large language models (LLMs) to automate reconnaissance and…

CrowdStrike revealed that a Chinese-speaking hacker deployed agentic pentesting tool ARTEX and Claude to help breach data from South Korean financial firms

We found and reported a bug in Provenance Blockchain, a public proof-of-stake chain built on Cosmos SDK , that lets any user grant themselves admin control over marker accounts without holding a single token. Provenance covers a range of financial services, including on-chain tokenized loans, private equity tokens,…

We planted 17 vulnerabilities in a banking AI agent and pointed four AI red teaming tools at it. We analyse the results, and the non-detected failures.

BPCE put a GenAI assistant in front of its banking customers. Here's how Giskard's red teaming and testing platform got it safely into production.