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Attackers Give an Open-Source Testing Tool an Unwanted Career Change
· New York time
Chinese hackers used ARTEX, an open-source, multi-agent AI penetration-testing framework, in attacks against more than 200 organizations across 14 countries, according to BleepingComputer. The framework is designed for testing, but the reported attacks show how a tool for examining security can also be used by intruders. Security teams and attackers may be interested in the same weak points for very different reasons. The software's job description says testing; its reported new employers were less interested in sending a helpful report afterward.
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