GMO Links Artex to Attacks on Japanese Companies

GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae says it found traces of the AI tool Artex on servers used in attacks against Japanese companies, including an infrastructure it estimates targeted about 20 firms. The company has not identified the attackers, and the findings do not establish who operated the servers. The security firm said its examination of forensic logs and attack infrastructure linked Artex, developed in China, to intrusions in Japan. In a company blog post, Daiki Fukumori of GMO Cybersecurity said the attacks were almost exclusively targeting Japan. The company said it shared information with law enforcement agencies. The reported estimates describe different scopes. One account of the firm’s findings put the overall number of Japanese companies targeted at about 80. A more detailed account said one infrastructure targeted around 20 companies and identified six additional infrastructures aimed at Japanese targets. The figures refer to different groupings and do not establish a complete total across all infrastructure. For the infrastructure examined in more detail, nine of the roughly 20 targets were in the same sector, according to the firm’s findings. Eight Japanese companies...