Chinese hackers use ARTEX AI in automated attacks against 200 orgs

By Bill Toulas · BleepingComputer · Monday, 2 November 2026 at 21:40 (yesterday) · Original article ↗

Chinese hackers used ARTEX, an open-source, multi-agent AI penetration-testing framework, in attacks against more than 200 organizations across 14 countries. [...]

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