Censys finds more than 800 Artex AI hacking tool deployments exposed without passwords
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Censys says it identified more than 800 Artex deployments accessible from the web without a password.
Artex is an open-source autonomous penetration testing tool. CrowdStrike linked it to an attack on the Korean finance industry in September, which it attributed to a Chinese-speaking hacker. Artex has announced it will go closed-source, but dozens of copies of its code remain on code-sharing sites.
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AICensys 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.
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