# Censys finds more than 800 Artex AI hacking tools exposed to the web

> Original title: Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web

- Source: TechCrunch · AI
- Published: 2026-11-06T18:44:38.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/oj5vciq9key81pqs6h5maaku1
- Original: https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/06/hundreds-of-artex-ai-hacking-tools-found-publicly-exposed-to-the-web/

## Summary

Censys says it identified more than 800 Artex deployments that were accessible from the web without a password. Artex is an open-source autonomous penetration testing tool linked to attacks, including one against the Korean finance industry in September, which CrowdStrike attributed to a Chinese-speaking hacker. Artex has since announced it will go closed-source, though dozens of copies of its code remain on code-sharing sites.