Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools exposed to the public internet
What happened
On 7 November 2026, a scan by security firm Censys found that more than 800 Artex deployments could be accessed from the public internet without a password. Artex is an open-source autonomous penetration-testing tool and has been linked to several cyber attacks since its release in July, including an attack on South Korea's financial sector in September and an attack on ConnectWise in October. The current development is that Censys has disclosed the scale of the exposure and the associated attacks.
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- TechCrunch · AIHundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
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