# AI-powered hacking tools enabled a likely single attacker to breach multiple South Korean banks

**Published:** October 8, 2026
**Author:** Matthias Bastian
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/ai-powered-hacking-tools-enabled-a-likely-single-attacker-to-breach-mult

According to CrowdStrike, a suspected Chinese-speaking attacker hacked multiple South Korean financial institutions. At Shinhan Bank alone, more than 25,000 customer records were stolen. The attacker used ARTEX, an open-source tool that uses AI models like DeepSeek and GLM-5.3…

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**Tags:** #DeepSeek

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