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Censys reports over 800 Artex AI hacking tool deployments exposed online without passwords

TechCrunch · 2026-11-06
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Censys said it found more than eight hundred distinct Artex setups reachable from the web with no password. Artex is Chinese open-source autonomous penetration-testing software tied to several cyberattacks since its July release; Microsoft has described it as AI agents progressing from reconnaissance to data exfiltration with little human input. Silas Cutler wrote that not every exposed instance is necessarily run for malicious ends.

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