Attacks at Machine Speed and Scale

Why every door leads to the data, and how to catch AI-driven attackers there.

Attacks at machine speed

Multi-agent frameworks such as ARTEX let attackers search for a way in at machine speed, and they arrive with valid credentials. This white paper walks through two ARTEX incidents Theom detected in customer environments, one in Snowflake and one in Microsoft 365, recreated in Theom’s Threat Detection Research Lab to protect customer confidentiality.

What happened in both

In each, a software supply chain vendor’s identity was compromised on the vendor’s side, granted itself more privileges and went for the data. Every step was a permitted operation from a valid credential, and the existing security tools did not trip.

Why a data-centric behavioral defense

A typical enterprise runs hundreds of trusted vendor integrations, and any one of them can become the way in. Guarding every door is a losing game, but every door leads to the data. The signal is not how much an identity does but whether its behavior fits its purpose. Where Theom was set to act, the attack stopped: in one customer’s production environment, Theom quarantined the vendor identity and disabled its sessions at its first unintended reach for sensitive data.