AI agents scale and speed up Chinese-linked attacks

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.

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/ The 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 .