🚨 China-nexus hackers ran an 11-day espionage blitz with DeepSeek-driven agents
CrowdStrike says VAPOR PANDA used an agent framework called ARTEX, running mostly on DeepSeek, against 200+ organizations in 14+ countries. Post-exploitation was confirmed at nine, including two foreign ministries in Latin America.
Earlier cases had AI helping with one intrusion at a time. Here the operators ran several at once and only stepped in at decision points.
CrowdStrike says VAPOR PANDA used an agent framework called ARTEX, running mostly on DeepSeek, against 200+ organizations in 14+ countries. Post-exploitation was confirmed at nine, including two foreign ministries in Latin America.
Earlier cases had AI helping with one intrusion at a time. Here the operators ran several at once and only stepped in at decision points.
CrowdStrike.com
VAPOR PANDA Uses AI-Driven ARTEX to Grow Global Espionage Campaign
CrowdStrike identified a VAPOR PANDA campaign using ARTEX, along with DeepSeek and another commercial LLM, to attack multiple high-value targets.
🇨🇳 Iluvatar CoreX says its new GPU matches Nvidia's H200
The Chinese chipmaker made the claim as Beijing pushes home-grown accelerators. No independent benchmarks yet.
"Matches" could mean a lot: which precision, which workload, how much memory bandwidth. H200 is also a 2024 part, and Nvidia's newer chips are the real yardstick.
The Chinese chipmaker made the claim as Beijing pushes home-grown accelerators. No independent benchmarks yet.
"Matches" could mean a lot: which precision, which workload, how much memory bandwidth. H200 is also a 2024 part, and Nvidia's newer chips are the real yardstick.
South China Morning Post
China’s Iluvatar CoreX says new GPU matches Nvidia’s H200 as chip gap closes
Tiangai 300 outperformed the H200 in complex multimodal tasks, including text-to-image and text-to-video generation using frontier AI models.
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🚨 Nine AI developer platforms got breached in October alone
Wiz tracked the cluster and calls the month "Black October." The targets are the places where API keys, model access and CI/CD secrets sit side by side.
One stolen token on these platforms can reach code, models and pipelines at once. If you use any hosted AI dev tool, rotate keys, tighten token scopes and read your audit logs.
Wiz tracked the cluster and calls the month "Black October." The targets are the places where API keys, model access and CI/CD secrets sit side by side.
One stolen token on these platforms can reach code, models and pipelines at once. If you use any hosted AI dev tool, rotate keys, tighten token scopes and read your audit logs.
wiz.io
“Black October” for AI Developer Platforms | Wiz Blog
A series of agentic attacks on AI Developer Platforms has been leading to LLMJacking at scale.
🚨 OpenAI's latest round lands at less than half of its $30B target
The WSJ reports the raise came up roughly $15B short, though it still values the company at $1.25 trillion, below the $1.4 trillion it was aiming for. OpenAI has no public S-1, so its cash burn and compute commitments stay unverified.
The WSJ reports the raise came up roughly $15B short, though it still values the company at $1.25 trillion, below the $1.4 trillion it was aiming for. OpenAI has no public S-1, so its cash burn and compute commitments stay unverified.
The Wall Street Journal
OpenAI Raises Less Than Half of $30 Billion Target in Latest Round
The ChatGPT maker’s latest funding round values it at $1.25 trillion, less than its $1.4 trillion target.