South Korea Arrests Seven in AI-Assisted Hacking Case

• South Korean police identified seven suspects linked to a cybercrime operation.
• A 32-year-old self-taught hacker used AI tools to breach about 90 organizations.
• The gang stole 8.2 million data records and demanded around $270,000 in ransom.
• ARTEX AI pentesting framework was used in most of the attacks.
• The gang received only a small fraction of the ransom demanded.