Censys has discovered over 800 public instances of open-source AI hacking tools called Artex exposed on the internet.

Cybersecurity firm Censys found more than 800 open-source autonomous penetration testing tools known as Artex deployed without passwords and accessible from the internet. Artex is an open-source AI hacking tool developed in China; since its public release in July, it has been linked to multiple attacks, including one against South Korea's financial sector in September and another against ConnectWise in October. CrowdStrike attributed the former to a Chinese hacker using Artex.