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Chinese AI Tool Pulled to Prevent ‘Misuse’ After South Korea Hacks

October 9, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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ARTEX AI, an open-source Chinese penetration testing agent that South Korea says was “highly likely” used in breaches at more than seven financial firms, has been made closed-source by its developer, Autumn-27. We explain what the tool is, how investigators and CrowdStrike linked it to the attacks, what the developer said, why pulling the code cannot recall existing copies, what UK law says about dual-use tools, and what UK businesses should do now.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call for Action to Defend Against Rogue AI

August 28, 2026
Cyber Security
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On 27 August 2026 OpenAI published an open letter titled “A call for collective action on cyber defense” and put 128 organisations behind it, including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Oracle and most of the cybersecurity industry. The letter argues that AI-enabled attacks are about to become far more widespread and that defenders have a window measured in months. This breakdown covers the three principles, the real signatory count, the sectors that turned out, the absences of Meta, Nvidia and Apple, the run of 2026 incidents that made the timing possible, the 32 discrete asks aimed at four audiences, what the document leaves out, the Daybreak and Mythos products sitting behind it, and the controls a mid-sized organisation should actually put in place this quarter.