ARTEX is an open-source, LLM-driven autonomous penetration-testing framework, and its web console is now deployed at scale on U.S. commercial hosting. Starting from internet-wide scanner telemetry, SOCRadar researchers merged and de-duplicated 1,295 U.S.-hosted candidate instances, re-validated each one, and confirmed 916 live ARTEX-family consoles in a snapshot taken on November 11, 2026. The software was built to help security teams test systems they own.
ARTEX: 916 Exposed AI Pentest Consoles Mapped in the U.S.
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