Hacking on Autopilot: Inside ARTEX Cybercrime Campaigns

What happened?

Key Points Agentic hacking platforms like ARTEX, where AI models autonomously drive vulnerability discovery and exploitation, have been observed to be used by various cyber criminals. Check Point Research’s analysis of the current landscape observed more than 1,800 publicly exposed instances for ARTEX alone, showing a massive scale of deployments. While previous threat reports on ARTEX focused on the observed telemetry on the victim side, we present artifacts from the operator consoles. This data shows which models were used as well as how the operators prompted their agents.