----------------🎯 AI===================Agentic hacking platforms have become ordinary cybercrime infrastructure. Check P...

----------------🎯 AI===================Agentic hacking platforms have become ordinary cybercrime infrastructure. Check Point Research published an analysis of ARTEX, a Chinese open-source AI-powered penetration testing platform, and the data this time comes from operator consoles rather than victim-side telemetry.🔹 Scope and methodologyThe census covers 2,557 systems hosting or having hosted ARTEX panels, with 1,608 live and publicly available at research time. Operators routinely expose the administrative interface to the internet for remote access, which is what makes external discovery and metadata analysis possible. Ten instances were misconfigured and left the full ARTEX database open, adding direct evidence of model choice and how agents were prompted.🔹 What the consoles show• Most attacks ran fully autonomously after the initial goal setup; interaction with the agent fleet was limited to progress checks.• Chinese models were the most prevalent, with DeepSeek Flash taking the lea...