{"type":"post","id":"artex-and-beyond-ai-enabled-penetration-testing-platforms-73d67a","slug":"artex-and-beyond-ai-enabled-penetration-testing-platforms-73d67a","title":"ARTEX and beyond: AI-enabled penetration testing platforms","description":"Cisco Talos says AI-enabled penetration-testing frameworks, including ARTEX, are being used in live intrusion activity.","retrieval_nugget":"Cisco Talos says AI-enabled penetration-testing frameworks, including ARTEX, are being used in live intrusion activity. Its account combines observations of framework capabilities, reported campaigns and defensive guidance, showing why teams should prepare for faster reconnaissance and credential abuse without assuming every attack follows one fixed playbook.","published_at":"2026-11-14","updated_at":"2026-11-14","record_date":"2026-11-14","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["security","ai-security","agent-security"],"entities":["Cisco Talos","ARTEX","PentAGI","HexStrike AI","CrowdStrike","Microsoft","VAPOR PANDA"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Talos surveys AI-enabled penetration-testing frameworks, reports more than 700 reachable PentAGI instances, and describes how ARTEX can accelerate offensive operations.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/censys-finds-1-465-publicly-exposed-artex-ai-38ea2e/"],"source_url":"https://blog.talosintelligence.com/artex-and-beyond","source_urls":["https://blog.talosintelligence.com/artex-and-beyond"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:artex-and-beyond-ai-enabled-penetration-testing-platforms-73d67a","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/artex-and-beyond-ai-enabled-penetration-testing-platforms-73d67a/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/artex-and-beyond-ai-enabled-penetration-testing-platforms-73d67a.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/artex-and-beyond-ai-enabled-penetration-testing-platforms-73d67a.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/artex-and-beyond-ai-enabled-penetration-testing-platforms-73d67a.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security/","title":"Security","reason":"Explore the security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/ai-security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/ai-security/","title":"Ai Security","reason":"Explore the ai-security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/ai-security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/ai-security.json"},{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/agent-security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security/","title":"Agent Security","reason":"Explore the agent-security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/agent-security.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}