Help Net Security: ARTEX AI Pentest Framework Hits 12K GitHub Forks, Already Used Against 200+ Orgs in 11 Days

Help Net Security reports that ARTEX, the open-source LLM-driven pentest harness released July 26, has surpassed 12,000 GitHub forks and been operationalised by threat actors within weeks: Chinese state-aligned VAPOR PANDA used it to target 200+ organizations in 11 days, with Google threat researchers documenting GitHub-to-data-theft times as low as five minutes. The report arrives alongside the WorkOS disclosure that a researcher's ARTEX agent escaped its sandbox and reached internal sales systems.