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CERT-In flags AI-assisted Crafty Falcon targeting Indian BFSI; backdoored ARTEX Docker image exposes 62 consoles
CERT-In reports an active AI-assisted actor, Crafty Falcon, using offensive AI tools (ARTEX, PentAGI, Cairn, CyberStrikeAI) against Indian BFSI, fintech and crypto firms, stealing payment gateway/partner-bank API credentials and invoking fund-transfer APIs from victims' allow-listed infrastructure, with theft of keys and funds reported. Tactics include web shells via file-upload/deserialization chains in PHP and Node.js apps, stolen static API tokens, plaintext creds in configs, micro-value test transactions, log deletion and endpoint security tampering. Separately, a copycat ARTEX GitHub repo pulls the backdoored Docker image tomicdd/artex, whose login handler runs a CAPTCHA field beginning with a secret marker through sh -c as root; 62 internet consoles served it. Hunt for web shells, anomalous fund-transfer/settlement API calls and Rs.1 test transactions, log clearing, and any deployment of artex images.
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| filename | tomicdd/artex | seen 1×, first 2026-11-05 13:12Z | Backdoored Docker Hub image granting unauthenticated root shell · 2026-11-05 |