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Incident 1794: China-Linked Espionage Group VAPOR PANDA Reportedly Used ARTEX AI Agents to Breach Government and Corporate Systems Worldwide
“VAPOR PANDA Uses AI-Driven ARTEX to Scale a Global Espionage Campaign”Latest Incident Report
CrowdStrike OverWatch identified a VAPOR PANDA campaign using ARTEX alongside the Chinese-developed DeepSeek large language model (LLM) and a second commercial LLM to conduct intrusions against multiple high-value targets in parallel.
Beginning on October 17, 2026, the adversary used ARTEX against more than 200 distinct organizations worldwide, including foreign ministries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; semiconductor, defense, and think tank organizations in the U.S.; and telecommunications providers in multiple regions.
The VAPOR PANDA campaign detailed in this blog p
Incident 1793: Purported Deepfake Videos Allegedly Impersonated a Former Student to Falsely Accuse Texas U.S. Senate Candidate James Talarico of Sexual Assault
“Storm-1516 Produces Very Likely Deepfake Videos of Student Accusing Democratic Senate Candidate of Sexual Assault”
We identified a very likely coordinated network of accounts across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Threads, TikTok, X, and YouTube that is impersonating US Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, who serves in the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division.
A newly created X account seeded two very likely deepfake videos on Oct. 20 that depicted a former student of Texas state Rep. and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico accusing him of sexual assault. Based on dissemination tactics and content characteristics, we assess with high confidence that the Russia-ali
Incident 1789: Cybersecurity Firm Cathedral Reportedly Used AI Agents to Access Anthropic's Internal Business Systems
“How an AI start-up founded by ex-DOGE staffers broke into Anthropic”
Cathedral, a months-old cybersecurity start-up, recently told Claude chatbot maker Anthropic that its researchers had penetrated sensitive internal data and messaging systems at the artificial intelligence company, according to a draft report by Cathedral reviewed by The Washington Post.
The start-up, founded by former members of the cost-cutting U.S. DOGE Service, offers AI-powered cybersecurity tools to the U.S. government and corporate clients. Its researchers got inside Anthropic systems by exploiting vulnerabilities in business software used by the AI firm and many other companies for a
Incident 1790: Purported AI Bots Flooded a UK Government Tobacco and Vaping Consultation with Reportedly Fraudulent Responses
“AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban”
AI bots flooded a government consultation with tens of thousands of fake responses in a failed attempt to stop the UK’s ban on disposable vapes.
Three-quarters of all the responses to the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated, in what is thought to be the first coordinated attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the UK.
The attempt to manipulate the outcome of the consultation was disclosed on Tuesday in research published in the journal Tobacco Control by the health policy experts Dr Nason Maani, from the University of Edinburgh, and Prof Anna Gil
