Open-Source AI Pentest Framework ARTEX Spotted in Real Intrusion Attempts
cyb3rops · x · 2026-11-03
Palo Alto Unit 42 reports intrusion attempts against multiple targets using ARTEX, an openly published AI penetration-testing framework in which an LLM agent chooses each step of the attack. Security researcher @ShanHolo then ran a threat hunt via Huntio's MCP server, surfacing several new related IP addresses (e.g. 143.198.221.211:8787, 113.45.22.170:8787) for further tracking.
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