Check Point details ARTEX AI hacking platform used in largely autonomous cybercrime
AI SECURITYCheck Point Researchredteam/daily · 1 source
- Severity
- High
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What happened
Check Point Research reports that ARTEX, an open-source LLM-driven penetration testing platform, is being abused by cybercriminals, with 2,557 systems found hosting ARTEX panels and 1,608 still publicly reachable. Operator console data shows attacks were nearly fully autonomous, with Chinese models such as Deepseek Flash the most common, and campaigns targeting cryptocurrency, code-signing certificates and gaming accounts, plus DoS attacks on gambling sites.
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What to do
- Check whether any ARTEX or similar agentic testing panels are exposed to the internet and remove public access.
- Restrict administrative interfaces to internal networks or behind firewalls.
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