{"slug": "ai-agents-scale-and-speed-up-chinese-linked-attacks", "title": "AI agents scale and speed up Chinese-linked attacks", "summary": "A China-nexus espionage group used AI agents to attack more than 200 organizations in 11 days, CrowdStrike reported last week, while Kaspersky on Monday published details of a separate Chinese-speaking campaign against educational institutions in Africa and Latin America. The two campaigns do not appear connected but run the same way: a human selects targets and sets goals, and a large language model decides which commands to run.", "body_md": "A China-nexus espionage group used AI agents to attack more than 200 organizations in 11 days, CrowdStrike said last week. On Monday, Kaspersky published details of a separate campaign against educational institutions in Africa and Latin America, mounted by Chinese-speaking operators. Though the campaigns don’t appear to be connected, they are executed the same way: a human picks the targets and sets the goals, and a large language model (LLM) decides which commands to run … [More](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/11/03/ai-powered-cyberattacks-artex-cyberstrikeai/) \n\nThe post [AI agents scale and speed up Chinese-linked attacks](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/11/03/ai-powered-cyberattacks-artex-cyberstrikeai/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-scale-and-speed-up-chinese-linked-attacks", "canonical_source": "https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/11/03/ai-powered-cyberattacks-artex-cyberstrikeai/", "published_at": "2026-11-03 12:31:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-03 12:53:54.138002+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["CrowdStrike", "Kaspersky", "China"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-scale-and-speed-up-chinese-linked-attacks", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-scale-and-speed-up-chinese-linked-attacks.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-scale-and-speed-up-chinese-linked-attacks.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-agents-scale-and-speed-up-chinese-linked-attacks.jsonld"}}